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I first will read from
a couple of translations

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from Mexican poet by
the name of León Felipe.

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He is relatively unknown.

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I think not because he isn't
any good or he wasn't any good.

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He died in '68.

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But I think his
star was probably

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eclipsed by Octavio Paz.

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Anyway, what I think
I'll do is I'll

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read Autobiography, since that's
one good way to know someone

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is read their autobiography.

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Anyway, he has a
great sense of humor,

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and that's what's
nice about him.

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By laughing at
himself, he ends up

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being serious and exposing
a lot of our problems

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and a lot of our good points.

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Anyway, Autobiography.

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Are you a prophet, León Felipe?

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Oh, no, I'm a thing without
a name, born from the Earth.

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I know less than a laborer.

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I'm 81 years old,
I'm crazy, and I

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don't know why they
brought me to this place.

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I hear confused
and obscure voices,

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which I've got to untangle.

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Sometimes I write
without untangling them,

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so among everyone will
get them untangled,

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because I don't want
the oracle to trick me.

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They say I'm a heretic
and the blasphemer,

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and others are certain that
I've seen the face of God.

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It's not true.

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I've seen nothing
more than my own face

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when I look in the mirror.

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