Ligia - portuguese form of Ligeia (Usage: Greek mythology, Ancient greek. Meaning and history: derived from Greek ligys, meaning 'clear-voiced, shrill, whistling'. This was the name of one of the Sirens in Greek legend. It was also used by Edgar Allan Poe in his story 'Ligeia' (1838)
'you will take them to the ocean
to the last mermaid,
seaweed and shark, merry whale,
end of flesh and hour and horror,
and finally they stop
and you go on
toward your ocean,
the cigar biting your lips
the way love used to'
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