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Since I mentioned Nogales,
I have another poem that--

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from a series of four
poems called "Figures."

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The title "Figures"--

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I guess I thought of them
as poem, painting, something

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like that--

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word pictures.

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Actually, it was the last
poem I wrote for the book.

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And it's the last poem
of the Western section.

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Book's divided
into three seconds.

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The last poem was
the Western section.

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And I want to read number two.

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It was a transition in style.

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I was getting into something
different, which my new poems

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which I'll be reading
soon will reflect.

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It's a carrying of the image
for a longer amount of time.

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"Where the rotted
agave's clear tequila

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serves as lubricant
or antiseptic,

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the dark eyes of the live
ones who keep their families

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in the hills.

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One standing at a bar window.

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Night rouge blending
to rich skin, set off

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an orange lace against black
hair and fine Castilian

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features, fixes the
walker in the street

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with cold onyx Indian
eyes, knowing in their 20s

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as if the window mirrored street
framed an artist's masterpiece.

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Life's in astrain, and the color
white for martyrs and virgins."