If you thought you could get rid of me... is a work about desire, about the figure of the sailor, the brave, fearless and seductive hero. The work, a facsimile of three books/diaries, incorporates pictorial and graphic elements, image clippings and sentence excerpts taken from some of Mário Cesariny’s best-known poems. The work clearly evokes his famous Water Lines, but also the small paintings representing sailors he made in the 60s and the hypothetical encounters he had with some of these enigmatic figures on the quays of the port of Lisbon.