All right.
And I've got just one more.
Yeah.
This is called, "Let's Stay Alive,"
after and for Farid Matuk.
Somebody needs to be making cafecito at midnight
while the future sleeps.
Somebody needs to be the first and the last one
on the dance floor.
Somebody needs to hang on to this planet,
long enough to remember.
After all, fool, what are you even doing
with that big beautiful life?
Let's ransack the corpse of empire.
Take tools.
Pocket the tongues.
Grieve the land, aching before everyone.
Decentralize and dismantle from within,
the warped landscapes of language.
Let's stay velvet.
Thieving things like time, energy, repose.
Let's learn how to bring those cenotes back to the community.
Para siempre."
Thank you, Tucson.
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And by the way, I read from the copies at the library
because I wanted to charge them with this night.
So if you ever pick these up, I hope
you feel this moment forever.
Thank you.
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