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This next one is
titled "Saudade."

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And it's a Portuguese
word that many say

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has no real translation.

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And so this poem is
an attempt to do that.

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"In the republic of
flowers, I studied

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the secrets of hanging clothes.

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I didn't know if it was raining
or someone was frying eggs.

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I held the skulls of
words that mean nothing.

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You left between the hour of
the ox and the hour of the rat.

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I heard the sound of two braids.

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I watched it rain
through a mirror.

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Am I asking to be spared or
am I asking to be spread?

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Your body smelled
like cathedrals,

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and I kept your photo
in a bottle of mescal,

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semen-salt wolf's teeth.

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You should have touched my
eyes until they blistered,

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kissed the skin of my instep.

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For thousands of years,
sealed honey never

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spoils, won't crystallize.

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I saw myself snapping
a swan's neck.

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I needed to air out my eyes,
the droplets on a spider

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web in the grace they held,
who gave me permission

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to be this person to drag my
misfortune on this leash made

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of gold."

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[APPLAUSE]

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