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I think the last poem will be--

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before we start talking--

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would be a prose piece
translated by Sam Charters.

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And it's called
"Funchal" which is

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a place in Madeira, a Portuguese
island in the Atlantic.

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"Funchal".

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"The fish restaurant
on the beach,

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plain, a shack built
by shipwrecked people.

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Many turn away at the door, but
not the guests from the sea.

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A shadow stands in his smoking
cabin and fries to fish

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according to an old
recipe from Atlantis.

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Small explosions of garlic,
oil running out of the tomato

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slices.

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Every bite saying that
the ocean wishes us

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well, a humming from the deep.

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She and I look into each
other, like climbing up

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the wild blooming
hillsides without feeling

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the least bit tired.

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We are on the side
of the animals.

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We are welcome.

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We don't get older.

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But we have experienced so much
together through the years.

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We remember that all the moments
when we were good for nothing.

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As when we lined up to give
the flowers in giant blood,

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he had ordered transfusions.

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Things that should
have separated us

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if they hadn't bound us closer,
and things we forgot together,

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but they haven't forgotten us.

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They have become dark
and light stones.

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Stones in the scattered mosaic.

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And now it happens.

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The fragments fly together.

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The mosaic comes to life.

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It's waiting for us.

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It's shining from the
wall in the hotel room.

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A violent and tender design.

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Perhaps a face.

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We don't have time to
perceive everything

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as we pull off our clothes.

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In the evening, we go out.

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The cape's enormous dark blue
pool lies thrown in the sea.

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We walk in a human
whirlpool pushed around

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in a friendly way.

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Soft controls.

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Everyone talking excitedly
in that foreign language.

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No man is an island.

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We become stronger by them
but also by ourselves.

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By that thing within us
that the other one can see.

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Something that can
only meet itself.

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The deepest paradox,
the garage flower,

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the ventilator to the good
darkness, a drink that

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bubbles in the empty glasses,
a loudspeaker that sends out

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silence, a pathway that
grows, grows over again

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after each step, a book that
can only be read in the dark."

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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