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So, Cecilia Vicuña,
when she was young,

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some of these poems come
out of the Stupid Diary.

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It was like this 2000-page
diary that she kept.

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It was called Diario Estupido.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And some of them have
all of these sort

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of aphoristic writing.

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So we picked some
of the fragments

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from this 2000-page
document and translated it.

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And it's called Mondo,
Excerpts From The Stupid Diary.

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And this is also from this
same period from the '60s.

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Poetry is the means by which
unreality invites reality

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to switch sides.

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Sex is God's gaze,
daylight's key.

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Who knows of light, the
great luminous coitus?

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Suffering and happiness are
indistinguishable to the soul

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who laughs at it all.

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In future luminosity, we
will lack contingency.

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The sea is the sky
of another sky.

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We must lure the future and
place it between our thighs

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as a done deal.

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An instantaneous life
not a shitty one.

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Sex is incorruptible.

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Between gap of thigh and
sliver of night, Uxmal.

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Say of them, oh,
Black vagina, oh, red

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vagina, oh, vagina of gold,
legs of ivory, and nothing more.

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Thoughts are
digested like grain.

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Nutrients equally precious.

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People without
food but with ideas

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have survived for centuries, but
well-fed people without ideas

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waste away in oblivion.

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I am what is on the
verge of becoming

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what rises in smoke signals.

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I carry on my back those who
weep over my lost Incahuasi.

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My language is restrained,
elegant and delicate

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like clouds at dawn.

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My language is low class like
the prostitute I intimately am.

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