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The next ones I'm going
to read is actually

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a fictitious persona I guess,
called The Gypsy Angel.

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And what I did is I
stole a line or really I

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stole the whole idea
after Rafael Alberti

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in Strand's collection.

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And the whole point
of one of the lines

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is that this woman is
looking at her lover

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and he's asleep
and says, your eyes

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are two boys that look at
the sea, something like that.

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And I just kind of
elaborate on the conceit

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where I made a
conceit out of it.

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The Gypsy Angel.

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Your eyes are two boys that
stare at the sea afraid

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of my gypsy hands.

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At night, my two little ones,
you sneak down to the wharf

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and steal stars, moons,
little boats from the sea.

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I watch envious in my
skirt of heavy wool.

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If only your eyes were peonies
I'd pluck them into a jar

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and stare at them all day.

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My two errant boys who
snicker in the silence,

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when I'm not looking.

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Give me something more
than a plate of seaweed

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or love a rock filled with
stars thrown back low tide.

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Sleep now, sleep.

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Tomorrow, I'll give you string
and paper for your kites

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and lead you away.

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But first let me sing you to
sleep, an old gypsy custom.

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