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If you really want to give
yourself insanity do a new

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and selected of poetry
you have written

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over 40 years, which I did.

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And I am slightly insane.

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However, since there are
Puerto Ricans in the room.

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I don't know.

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I see him there.

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OK.

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"Spanish Lesson."

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This is from way--

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I was two.

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Well maybe, four
or five but anyway.

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All right, so I came
to New York City.

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I ain't never met
no Puerto Ricans.

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I didn't even know
there were islands.

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All right?

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Hey I'm from Arkansas.

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Jamaica was like,
Jamaica, you know

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like the movies about whatever.

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So I came to New York City and I
discovered many different kinds

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of Black people.

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OK.

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And other kinds of people too.

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But anyway, "Spanish Lesson."

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Hey, I had fun, OK.

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You can tell, I
went to dance clubs.

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I was terrible.

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But anyway, that's all right.

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La negra, term of endearment.

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El blanco, dream of riches.

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One woman, una mujer,
one man, un hombre.

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Tongues that began to
taste like tense geography.

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La Bamba est la danca
divine de los Africanos.

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White shoes ice the
city dance floor.

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Sharp that old pencil thin
mustache dream is dead.

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Because salsa es caliente,
suave and the men

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want brass to blast away the
crumbling buildings, the dope,

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the young dead carried
away with candles glowing.

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Las chicas dulces trabajan
the garment district,

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cursing when necessary.

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The others damned in
the push and pull.

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Forgive the old pirate
his coffers of rum.

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The ingles got more
than they bargained

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for, the city pulsating from
borough to borough con rhythms

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necessarios.

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Las mujer es lindas
bochinche on 14th Street,

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about the one with his
tongue hanging out.

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While Hector Lavoy lured the
ladies with a real or promises

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made sweeter by his
yo no sé, yo no sé.

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Outlaw African breezes perfume
the shining dance force,

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speaking this language never
sanctioned in the New World.

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Libations poured from
old pirate stock.

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Please the ancestors
here in North America,

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where Carmen Miranda and
her mulatto progeny sashay

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de stuff across
Hollywood camera eye,

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like comets christening
the tropics.

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Sí, cómo no?

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