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I'm sure a lot of you guys
are familiar with the dichos

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that your abuelitas
might have told you.

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And this is a very short poem
that's called "Un Poema en Tres

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Dichos."

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"'Ya te conozco, mosco'
is rumored to have begun

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as Pachuco slang.

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Finding the cops' rat,
seeing through the bad deal.

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Knowing already the truth
behind the layered lies.

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Ya te conozco.

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I already know you.

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I've already known the
venom of recognition.

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You're caught like a fly in
a web of my own fly design.

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Mosco.

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The taunting rhyme.

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I know you.

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I know you.

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I know.

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Two.

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'Más sabe el diablo por viejo'
is what you said to me when

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I'd been out too late and
smelled of cigarettes and booze

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in the morning.

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The wisdom of age is
always one by living

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through your own misdeeds.

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You don't expect I'll
listen to some dicho.

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No tengo juicio.

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Have some courtesy.

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Have some sympathy
and some taste.

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Knowledge has always been
a fruit worth biting,

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worth the juice running
down my throat, my chin.

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Three.

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'El hombre prevenido vale
por dos,' you would say to me

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and nod.

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Forewarned and forearmed.

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Be prepared.

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Dig the trenches.

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Lay defenses.

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Militant in its original design.

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But here it is also
about foresight.

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Which is to say, the ability
to account for contingency.

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Everything hangs by a thread
unraveling like the seconds

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before the cops and the
protesters begin their riots.

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That dance of broken
glass and broken teeth.

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Careful, I am
worth both of you."

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