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It's called, "Votive Vision."

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"She draws.

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She draws a door of breath,
breathes on the pane,

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the glass, and draws a door.

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An O, spells polio,
six years old.

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She draws.

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She dreams, walks with her
father again, river of glass

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to the river of
collecting bits of this

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and that to examine later
under the microscope,

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to hold shells, and plants,
and stones, to draw.

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All is votive vision
drawn to the swirling.

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Live your life.

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And her beloved papa
photographs her, and she adores,

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makes love to the
lens even then.

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Live your life.

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Embrace the life
you've been given,

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your grave image, even then.

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All is votive desire.

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And Tina Modotti
will photograph you,

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and Lucienne Block will
photograph you, Edward Weston,

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Nickolas Murray,
Lola Alvarez Bravo.

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And you make love
freely to the lens,

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and your life
opens, and your life

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widens like the river, your
grave reflection in the glass.

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Small boats in the air makes
love to you and the heat,

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listen, the drums, and
you leave the frame.

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Incessant, your life, just
a girl opening a door.

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She loves the sun
clanging, and she's drawn,

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drawn to the swirling, the way
color keeps coming and going,

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the way color drawn
to the longing.

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Her teacher holds an
orange and a flame.

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Imagine vastness, the planets.

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She dreams the orange
over, solar system

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drawn to the spinning.

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She stands in awe.

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She draws, each mark a door.

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With her finger in the
dirt, she makes a 3.

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She dreams.

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You are the alegria girl.

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Your lucky numbers
are three, 7, 9,

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and I am just trying to keep up.

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She closes her
eyes, just a child,

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and touches her dreamy
thigh before the accident,

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mischievous one, cheeky,
cheeky one climbing trees,

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prankster, anarchic
in the afternoon,

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already, her dark dares, her
fierce pursuit of pleasure,

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her refusal to refuse joy.

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Votive-- courage, you are the
alegria girl, ferocious child

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of fire, and I am standing
next to your heat and light

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for all these years.

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Aura, halo, oriole, you leave
the frame, searching, looking,

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Fulang Chang, childish
pranks, monkey business,

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monkeys hanging,
clinging to your neck,

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'Fulang Chang,' you shout.

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Monkeys clinging, her sexual
sunflower, halo, fire,

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setting off firecrackers,
throwing sparklers, light, even

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then.

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Hanging from a tree
upside down, the sun

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climbing monkeys, children
clinging to her neck,

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and she's drawn.

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She calls her monkey, 'Fulang
Chang,' she shouts.

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Irresistible one, taking,
asking, begging, looking,

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looking harder, watching through
the window, just a child.

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She sees her face in the glass,
draws, river of, all is vision.

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The sun clanging, Fulang
Chang, all is light,

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drawn to the way color
keeps coming and going,

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the way color--

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In the public gardens, in
the whirling of her, drawn,

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aura, halo, Alejandro,
dreamboat, teenage Frida

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screaming, ven Alejandro,
pink petals, the open fruit,

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giving up soaked, juicy pulp,
and swoon, and sea, need,

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and lush ambrosia,
the soft, dark nub.

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Votive-- cup.

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Oh, you are a curious one.

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In a knapsack, Frida
carried a notebook

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with drawings,
pinned butterflies,

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and dried flowers, colored
pens, and philosophy books

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from her father's library.

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And I am writing after her,
just trying to keep up.

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Elusive, fleeting,
beautiful one, and I

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am left again with everything
that escapes the page.

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Listen, the judgments,
and you leave the frame.

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In the margin of
her love letter,

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she draws a woman
with a long neck,

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pointed chin, enormous eyes.

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Don't tear her, Alejandro,
because she is very pretty,

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an ideal type.

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She draws a cat and
laughs, another ideal type.

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Then, Alejandro, let's peel.

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Let's peel back 24 hours of
incessant drumming on Good

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Friday together, gently.

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Watch as I do it, a little bit
of skin, my love, my love, just

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oh, you are a curious one, a
little to reveal, you tease,

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and later to paint.

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Fruit spread on the Earth,
dripping, fruit now open,

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peeled back beneath an open sky.

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See how she-- free,
a little free.

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Translucent, gleaming,
sun-drenched mischief maker,

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see how she--

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lit by roses,
incessant dreaming,

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and she learns to swear.

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In the square on the
day, she skipped school.

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Already, her dark dares,
her pursuit of pleasure,

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love letters, Alejandro,
answer me, answer me,

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answer me, answer me,
her extracted heart

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in her hands, her refusal to
refuse pain posing even then.

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Unstoppable, ribbons of
light set me free, answer me,

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and she leaves the frame.

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Answer me.

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The girls say they are dying
in the formal European.

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In the corridor of rules, in the
diminutives, in the diminished,

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in the regulations,
the girls say, bored

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with their pedestals, their
Europe of thorns and decorum,

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dark courtyards and order,
looking, looking harder.

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Watching through the
window, the child

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sees her face escape in
the glass and follows it.

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All is vision and dream.

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She draws her breath on glass.

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The two like to loiter in
the public gardens drawn

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to the light, green,
eye, and dream.

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Look, oh, look, watching him on
a scaffold at the preparatoria.

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Incessant painting drawn to
the debilitating, the promise,

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drawn to the fat
man, Diego Rivera

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painting in the air, creation.

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Can you feel it, the
way color, shape--

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Diego, Diego
Rivera, who's there?

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She soaks the stairs and
shouting from nowhere,

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'insolent child, watch out,
fat man, your wife is coming.

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You'll be caught, face
of a dog, face of a frog,

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his hundred clandestine
affairs, just a girl.'

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My only ambition
is to have a child

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by Diego Rivera,
the painter, and I

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am going to tell him someday.

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Frida, you are crazy,
just a girl at the prepa.

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Incessant dreaming, a
fat man with a palette

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on a scaffold casting beauty,
casting appalling possibility

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on her.

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Childish pranks to
dispel the strangeness,

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her sexual halo even then, 'you
must have been an angel,' he

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mutters from the
height, heat, and light.

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And one day, she shall marry it.

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But for now-- and you
return to the frame.

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Imposing is like
freedom sometimes.

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Her dreamy teenage
dreamboat, Alejandro,

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who will leave her sorry,
loose, promiscuous one,

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incessant drumming,
dreaming, answer me,

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voracious in the afternoon.

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The girls say they are dying.

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Incessant dreaming
asked to conform

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in the thorned
courtyard, exhausted

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by all the tired forms.

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Asked to believe those,
assume those, revere those,

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draw a blue door.

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Preposterous sexual stances
of modesty and silence,

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a little free, a door,
the girls like to kiss

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in the shadows, smooth
and perfect thigh tonight,

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world tonight,
voracious, irreverent.

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Assume those postures of,
I'm sorry, and silence,

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curious one, self-indulgent
mischief maker,

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'Fulang Chang,' she
shouts with glee.

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Answer me, who's there?

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Drawn to the vision,
partially revealed,

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voracious, microscope,
lens, windows, I. The girls

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say they are in those rooms of
judgments and pronouncements

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dying in the hedges, and
they leave the frame.

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Sparklers, and she draws a blue
door, dips her hand in the--

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Votive-- chalice, the girls
like to kiss sometimes

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and other things.

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The two girls love to dance,
her charms and secret numbers,

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setting off sparklers,
fetish, altar, free a little,

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venga, come to me, blue world,
magenta, red, the way color

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keeps opening, flower, chalice,
just a girl, mischief maker,

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drinking tequila
like a real mariachi.

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The girls say they are.

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The two girls love to
loiter in the public gardens

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of the university
district where they

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would listen to
the organ grinders

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and chat with
truants and newsboys.

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The two girls loved,
and the bells, tolling,

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miraculous cup, sun-drenched.

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She dips her hands.

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Beauty is convulsive, as Breton
will say, as your friend,

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Andre Breton will say
someday or not at all.

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Incessant dreaming, answer
me, she is the alegria girl,

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the way beauty keeps coming, the
way color vibrates, convulsive,

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drawn to the swirling,
drawn to the light.

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She is the alegria girl,
incessant dreaming,

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sparklers come to
me already on fire."

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