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And I should dedicate this
to Eliana since Cuba's home.

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Although, I went to
an Afro-Cubano dance

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experience which I'll
probably never recover from

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and this is called "Frenzy."

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Safe they looked, resting in
a tree, the chickens sinking

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into their feathers, sinking
into the night, soft, peaceful.

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The drum.

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The singing, mouths
opening and opening,

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dancers swaying their
hips into one another,

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sliding up and down.

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The bodies loose,
yelling in the dark.

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The drum, the drum louder.

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His thighs thick
and frightening.

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His eyes searching us
rudely and no escape,

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vulnerable as chickens.

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The drum, the drum
quickening his breaths.

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The chicken stretched
tight as my neck.

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Her teeth sinking,
sinking into the feathers.

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Blood poured from the neck
into a cheap plastic cup.

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Rum, rum blood poured
down our throats.

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Drink, said with unparted lips,
he moving heavily around us,

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hitting our backs hard,
hitting our pale fear,

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yanking us onto the
stage for a cleansing--

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una limpia.

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The drum inside my
neck, louder, louder.

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Eggs swept over our bodies
to lure out evil spirits.

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Our bodies sinking into
the ripe, yellow smell

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of pineapple, mangoes.

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Wild singing, wild
heat, heat of the drums.

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