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Thank you, Teresa.

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I didn't expect a huge audience.

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Well, thank you very much.

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When I moved from Sarajevo,
I moved to Phoenix, Arizona,

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and I spent the five
months in Phoenix, Arizona.

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And I feel that Arizona
is like my birth

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place in my second life, and
I feel really good to be here.

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OK.

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I will read a couple of poems
from Sarajevo Blues, published

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by City Lights and
translated from the Bosnian

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by Ammiel Alcalay.

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Good translator,
and good friend.

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"Corpse."

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"We slowed down at
the bridge to watch

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some dogs tear a corpse apart by
the river, and then we went on.

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Nothing in me has changed.

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I heard the crunch of
snow on their tires,

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like teeth biting into an apple.

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And they felt the wild
desire to laugh with you

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because you call this place
hell, and you flee from here,

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convinced that outside
Sarajevo does not exist."

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