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And this is the poem that
started it all, back there,

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on the spine of the continent.

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"Diego, you dead man.

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I write to you.

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It's been centuries, I'm
sure, since someone called out

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to you.

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But now I do.

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Diego de Landa.

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The year is 2023.

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And the calendar's been reset.

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Your story buried beneath your
auto-da-fé burning our bodies

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down.

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We've no one to
rescue that sound.

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But what am I saying?

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I speak English into
robots, and write to you

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in anything but
Spanish, lengua catalán.

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I wanted you to know,
I've touched your soil.

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And throughout
Madrid, and Barcelona,

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I carved large, red letters
in churches and chapels.

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I painted Mayan conquest
on subways and buses.

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Wrote "fuck Spain" over
every flag I could find.

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I started small
fires in museums,

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and stopped short of
smashing mirrors and windows.

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And I can't erase you now.

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There's too much to wipe out
on data disks and clouds.

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And fire couldn't find you now.

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Perhaps you'll drown.

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Perhaps I'll pull you through
cenotes on my gringo tongue.

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Rinse your lungs clean
with Xibalba water.

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What would you
have to say, then?

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Could your heart be pure?

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I'd have to taste test
the ash of your organs.

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I'd have to fiddle with
your bones to be certain,

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I could trust you to go
on dying, unacquitted

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by the light of time.

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See, I want your
trial to continue,

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and maybe I want to save you.

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Love, A."

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[APPLAUSE]

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