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"On the Day of the
Departure by Bus."

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At this point, if
you know very well

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the works of
Raphael Alberti, you

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might recognize a source
in which it's modeled.

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It's an early poem
of his called--

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well, in translation,
it would be

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called on the day of his
death by an armed hand.

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This is called on the day
of the departure by bus.

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That's kind of the relationship
it has with its source.

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A remote relationship.

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Tell me if you were not
happy in those days.

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You were not yet 25, and you had
not yet abandoned the guitar.

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I swear to you by your nakedness
that you were a guitar.

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You swore to me
by your nakedness

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that you were a guitar.

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The moon swear to us
both by your nakedness

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that you had abandoned
yourself completely

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who would not go on living.

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The typewriter will
be glad to have become

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the poem, the guitar
to have been your body,

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I too have had the luck to
envy the sole of your shoe

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in the dead of winter.

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A passenger has lost
his claim check.

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A brunette her barrette.

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And I, I think that there
are moths eating holes

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in my pockets, that
my place in line

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is evaporating, that
the moon is not the moon

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and the bus is not the bus.

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What is the word for goodbye.

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