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>> And now I'll finish this segment
by reading from my last book of poems

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that I did two years ago, for children.

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It's called Poems to dream
together and this is my response

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to what's going on in America right now.

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I remember that when we had the,
you know, the invasion of Iraq,

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my neighbor took an American
flag, put it on the garden.

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And then, a week later, there
were two American flags

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and then a week later there
were -- Another one, you know?

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At the end, there were about
four American flags.

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And so I was almost tempting
to have a white flag, you know?

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Saying "Me rindo".

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And so, the poems -- It's about peace.

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About the idea of bringing
back the sense of peace.

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The idea that, you know, here is possible for
children to imagine another way of looking.

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And I was working with children in
Washington DC, [? Oyster ?] Elementary,

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children that are valuable children.

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And so they wrote poems about how
they saw themselves in the future

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and this is my response to their poems.

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And the poem goes Sueño para despertar.

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Cuando sueño que estoy soñando,
estoy apunto de despertar.

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Waking dream.

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When I dream I'm dreaming, I'm about to wake up.

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Maybe we are ready to wake
up, you know, in our dreams.