>> Survival.
I lost everything, but hope.
You know, I come from -- I live in San Francisco for many years and I have a friend here sitting,
you know, who is -- Who was in San Francisco for many years and a lot of our friends.
Rodrigo Reyes.
A lot of the people in the community basically passed away.
I would say that 90% of the people that I met in San Francisco died of AIDS.
And so, I'm a survivor.
And the reason why I'm survivor is because I have a partner for the last 20 years of my life.
And it is the way it is, you know?
And that's the way -- It's so difficult to be a survivor, to basically be in places
where all your peers are gone, you know?
And that's what this connection is about.
It says Wisdom.
Once, I knew it all.
Now, I question the little I know.
En el aire, escribo con la punta de mi lengua.
On air, I write with the tip of my tongue.
Poética, la vida.
La vida, el verdadero poema.
Poetic is life.
Life, the true poem.
Tanto vivo --