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>> For the The Desert Is No Lady filmmakers and editor,

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I want to read this, and
it's called "Mujer cacto."

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Are the filmmakers here?

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This is for you.

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You probably won't understand a word, but -
[laughs] This is part of what we were discussing

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over dinner about landscape, and it's
the women's relationship with landscape,

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and women's relationship to the desert, and
the desert plants and the desert animals,

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and these women are going to be
making a documentary about this.

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Mujer cacto.

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La mujer del desierto tiene espinas.

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Las espinas son sus ojos.

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Si tú te le arrimas, te araña.

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La mujer del desierto tiene
largas y afiladas garras.

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La mujer del desierto mira la avispa clavar
su aguijón y chingar a una tarántula.

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Mira que la arrastra a un
agujero, pone un huevo sobre ella.

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El huevo se abre, el bebé
sale y se come la tarántula.

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No es fácil vivir en esta tierra.

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La mujer del desierto se entierra
en la arena con los lagartos.

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Se esconde como rata, pasa el día
bajo tierra, tiene el cuero duro.

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No se reseca en el sol, vive sin agua.

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La mujer del desierto mete la
cabeza adentro como la tortuga.

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Desentierra raíces con su
hocico junto con las javalinas.

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Caza conejos con los coyotes.

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Como una flor, la mujer del desierto
no dura mucho tiempo, pero cuando vive,

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llena el desierto con flores
de nopal o de árbol paloverde.

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La mujer del desierto enrroscada
es serpiente cascabel.

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Descansa durante el día.

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Por la noche, cuando hace
fresco, bulle con la lechuza.

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Con las culebras alcanza un nido de pájaros
y se come los huevos y los pichoncitos.

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Cuando se enoja la mujer del desierto,

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escupe sangre de los ojos como el lagarto
cornudo cuando oye una seña de peligro.

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Salta y corre como liebre, se vuelve arena.

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La mujer del desierto, como el
viento, sopla, hace dunas, lomas.

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There were about thirteen poems here
that I tried to translate and couldn't.

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Half of them I could translate and the
translations are in here along with the poems.

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This was a poem that I tried to
translate and it just did not sound right,

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it didn't sound like what I wanted it sound
in English, so I left it untranslated.

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Somebody read this and made a
painting of a woman with thorns going

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out of her flesh, you know, and the desert.

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So, I'm sorry if you didn't understand.