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Thank you, thank you.

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Thank you very much.

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I read for almost an
hour, but maybe we

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have time for some
questions, some comments

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from the audience.

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I really think it's--

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poetry is a not a monologue
I really believe--

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this is my belief--

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that poetry is incomplete.

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All poems are incomplete.

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That listener and
the reader is the one

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that is an accomplice that
has to complete the poem.

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So maybe we know this is
a plea for some dialogue.

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Any comments, any questions?

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Yes?

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[INAUDIBLE]

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Well, I would say that
the X in my name--

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I have a poem about
the X in my name

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is a crossing of the
illiterate self, that's

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giving away a right to life.

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Because the Indians
what would do--

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they didn't know how
to read in Spanish.

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And sometimes, by crossing,
they gave away their lives.

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The Mexicans in the
Southwest, their lands

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were taken from them,
sometimes because they didn't

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know what they were signing.

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And so just this X.

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Xochipilli will be my name.

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The lord of the flowers,
the patron saint of poetry.

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But it's Javier.

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Javier.

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That's my middle name.

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Any other questions?

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Well, Thank you very much.

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So I will be available for
signing the books too, OK?

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