And so you want me to close it up and call it even?
Close it up, call it even.
It's been a long night.
Want me to go forth--
go forth-- go forth.
Everyone say, Juan Felipe.
Juan Felipe.
Go forth.
[CHUCKLES]
Isn't a cool phrase, go forth?
OK.
All right.
Here's a poem called "Notice."
Anti-Semitism, we got-- we got to crunch that one.
We got to get rid of that suffering cast upon Jews.
We kind of get-- burn it out.
We've got to take care of that.
We got to speak up.
This poem makes that attempt.
And OK.
So I already talked about it.
So here we go.
It's called, "Notice," like when you
put a notice, put a notice up.
"Notice.
It is that simple.
Do you want to live in a spiderweb suit
with a broken mirror?
Why would you want to carry the lies, the auto-da-fé burnings,
the genocide, and smoking gases?
Why eliminate your humanity?
Why march into the abyss, screaming
the tawdry texts of the abyss?
Infinite suffering is denying your sisters and brothers,
is denying yourself.
Do not feed the high collar serpent,
stepping into its undulating sands of fires.
The world is breaking, rumbling, melting,
being in totality walking away from us.
My mother, Lucha, when we lived on the desert roads,
and trailer parks, campesino worker camps, knew,
in the face of hatred, offer bread, friendship, sunlight,
songs."
And that's that one.
[APPLAUSE]
Thank you, my dear friends.
Thank you so much.
Muchas gracias.
Thank you, Poetry Center, Alison Deming, Chris Sutter,
everybody.
Farid, Noemi, all of yous, a big hand for all of you.
OK.
Big amount for all of you.
Everybody say raspado.
Raspado.
Everybody say, tamales.
Tamales.
Everybody say, enchiladas.
Enchiladas.
Everybody say, chilaquiles.
Everybody say, caldo.
Everybody say, ¿adónde vas?
Everybody say, ya estuvo, Juan.
Everybody say, we got to get home.
We got to get home.
Everybody say, we love the Poetry Center.
We love the Poetry Center.
Everybody say, oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Ah huh.
Get on down to the coffee ground.
Oh yeah.
Ah huh.
Get on down to the coffee ground.
[APPLAUSE]
Thanks everybody.
And, Farid-- any last words, Farid, on our projects
that are taking place?
Alison, everybody, any last words on projects?
No.
OK.
That's really sad.
[LAUGHTER]
I'm joking, buddy.
I'm joking.
OK.
Thanks everybody.
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