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Prepositions can be
sexy, so there you are.

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I am a lover of words and going
with this notion of language.

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Speaking Spanish
in Puerto Rico is

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very different than speaking
Spanish in LA, by the way.

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I think Luis is like,
yes, that's true.

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Certain things get
lost in translation.

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One of my favorite
stories is when I first

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met my mother-in-law, and
I said the word "pinche".

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And that did not go
well at the dinner table

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because I was asking
for a barrette.

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I was like, where's my pinche?

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And everyone at the dinner table
was like, what are you saying?

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So this is kind of
going along with that.

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It's called "Sonnet
for our Lexicon."

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"The first morning
we spoke the language

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of our ancestors,
confusion spread between us

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like an epidemic.

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Your furrowed brow
stripped my language naked

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as I asked you to leave the
room but you stood your ground,

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I repeated in my boricua
Spanish to come back later,

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for your Chicano ears
understood right now.

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You questioned the validity
of the word safacón,

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laughed when I pointed to the
barrette in my hair and called

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it a pinche.

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I insisted an orange is
a china, not a naranja,

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how guagua sounded much
better than autobús.

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As we compile the
lists of our lexicons,

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Mi Viejo San Juan began
to play in the background.

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Your hand asked for a dance
and my body said Simón."