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And my other hero--

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and I hope many of you
know his work as well--

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the Spanish poet
Federico Garcia Lorca,

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dead at the hands
of the thug Franco.

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And in fact, his grave couldn't
be found for many years.

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It was recently found, and
this poem refers to that.

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I think, if I may say, of
the Syrian poets tonight

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cowering somewhere, hiding
somewhere heroically

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against thugs.

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"Street of Dreams."

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Whoever covered
Garcia Lorca never

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identified his shallow
grave, but finally one summer

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the mystery is told.

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It turns out he's
likely very nearby

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as a red poppy
with a black heart.

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A field of him
enchanted the site.

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Until he was gathered, God as
my witness, thrown into a sack,

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and swung like a bag
of cement into a trench

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dug by some old soul seeking
water in the countryside.

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Huddling close by pomegranates
or figs, and possibly lemons.

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Almonds and olives
too are not uncommon.

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Far enough from the
villages to be out of sight,

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but you get there
by car since they

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would have needed headlights
to shoot people at night.

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A firing squad of career
policemen and volunteer

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executioners, half afraid
for their own lives,

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murdered three others and
a poet for 500 pesetas.

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One skank bragged, I gave
that idiot a shot in the head.

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Irony of ironies.

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While you attract fireflies,
gnats, and other pests

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nearby your own head, a
hacked melon of red flesh

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sweetens an empty marketplace.

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