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Then I'll read-- this is only
in English, because I didn't

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bring the Spanish version.

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So I will just have
to read it in English.

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"Language Current."

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"English is like
a nuclear reactor.

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I'm in it right
now, As I shoot down

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its fast track,
small bits of skin,

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fragments, cells,
stick to my side.

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Once in a while, whole
sentences gush forth, and slam

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themselves against the page,
condensing the rapid sprays

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of pellets into separate words.

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Sometimes I travel at
186,000 miles an hour,

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the speed of light, when I lie
sleepless on the bed at night.

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No excess baggage is allowed,
no playful baroque tendrils

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curling this way and that, no
dreamtime walkabout all the way

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down to Australia.

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In English, you
have to know where

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you're going, either towards
the splitting of the self,

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or the blasting of the
molecules around you.

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Spanish is a very
different tongue.

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It's deeper and darker, with
so many twists and turns,

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it makes me feel like I'm
navigating the uterus.

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Shards of gleaming stone--

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emerald, amethyst,
opal-- wink at me

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as I swim down its moist shaft.

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It goes deeper than the English
Channel, all the way down

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the birth canal and beyond."

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