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So I also hope you
can excuse my English.

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But believe me my Spanish
is a little worse.

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So I'm going to read something
from the chapter to start.

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It's a piece--

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I try to work in English
now after discovering

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that I do feel comfortable
being translated.

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And here I discovered
that really

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before that almost nobody
understood Spanish.

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So I feel like I was a goose
or a clown somebody that's new,

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what I was saying.

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So I instead try to do
use my basic English

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and appropriating some things
like that to speak for myself,

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not let anybody else
talk, be my own language.

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So I do some pieces in
English using cliches,

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using the internet
appropriation,

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whatever, obviously
in the States.

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This is a piece called
"A Comedy, I Wonder Why."

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This poem was composed using
a remote control as meter.

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Every single text here
was written especially

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for this occasion, a reading
that never took place.

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So in case I someday publish it,
please don't consider it a TV

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but just another book.

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Each part, each poem
is divided according

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to the rules of zapping.

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A poem beginning here can
be interrupted at any point.

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And then we can return to
it later only to find it out

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in a late stage of.

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So in any moment the text can.

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This is the end of translation.

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I will not speak.

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I will just read.

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I will read from this page.

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I will not think or
talk directly to you.

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I will not.

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I will not use my mother tongue
or smuggle fruits or drugs

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into your US.

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I will leave mother
tongue behind.

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I will even forget the
name of my language.

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I will have no language for you.

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I will show any
documentation you request.

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I will just use
English in this land.

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I will not refer to my--

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This is exactly what
you always ask for.

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So I will not use my
mother tongue anymore.

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This is the end of it.

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Translation, the end of it.

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It of end.

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The end of it.

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The end of translation.

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But don't worry.

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I'm really trying to
give you fragments

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which can have a meaning by
themselves even though they

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are really loose parts.

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They just look like any
new remote control--

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no, just like any remote
control user would do.

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In September 11,
there was an attack

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on American global culture.

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And the Beatles
became a crucial part

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of American global culture.

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Then the 1st September,
11 was Yoko Ono.

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Most poets have no sense
of how to sell cars.

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This is a big problem.

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We have to fix poetry Maybe
publish a monthly magazine

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called 'Popular Poetics.'

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In Mexico there is one.

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Looking for a long movie, I
became seduced by ads, he said.

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The next strike on
American culture

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is not going to happen in the
material, visible, world, not

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even places like Pearl
Harbor or New York

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but against spiritual
entities like English.

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They will bring down the syntax,
bring down the possibility

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of putting words together.

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We will just have spare parts,
loose words here and there

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but no possible relationship
between them, he's saying.

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Just words here and there,
each alone by itself.

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Words, words, words.

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A TV, which thinks about itself
in each of its 10,000 channels.

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This TV would be the single
most intelligent living

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being on the planet.

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I'm now a game of
changing channels.

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If I lose my visa, half
of my life is gone,

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said the character in
this night's episode.

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I was watching TV when I
decided next week I was

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going to dream of helicopters.

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I saw the best minds of
a generation destroyed

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by Ginsberg.

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How did it happen?

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I saw the best minds of
my generation destroyed

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by Ginsberg?

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How did it happen?

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Beats me.

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The only thing left
after the end of it

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are going to be accents, not
languages, just one world

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language.

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And the only thing remaining,
the languages of the past

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are going to be accents,
accents and nothing

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more after the end of it.

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Rewind.

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Words, words, words.

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No speech, speech
disappeared the moment

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we all begin to talk after one,
psychoanalysis, two, Marxism.

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three, the universities,
four, Davin antin.

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TV is far more interesting
than the common human mind.

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Between watching one hour of TV
or listening to my neighbors,

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I would immediately
pick two hours of TV.

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Suddenly, I'm hearing a
voice in my head reminding me

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not everything is TV.

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This voice is telling
me things that

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make me think this voice is this
page talking to me, telling me

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I'm not exactly reading.

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I am not reading
exactly too well.

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My pronunciation
is bothering me.

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This voice I'm
hearing from my head

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is my own writing, speaking.

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I have the feeling
this voice in my head

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is calling somebody or giving
instructions to soldiers.

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