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Gabriel Palacios,
clearly a wizard.

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No question.

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That's just it, bro.

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Don't at me.

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Palacios is a magic user
capable of manipulating

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the structures of reality.

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Drawing in the subtle
weave of language

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that permeates the
cosmos, wizards

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cast poems of explosive fire,
arcing lightning, and especially

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in Palacios's case, subtle
shades of deception.

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Their mightiest spells change
one substance into another.

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Call meteors down from
the sky, or open portals

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to forgotten worlds.

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Like Tucson's own
Spanish Trail Motel,

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perhaps. Wizards live
and die by their poems,

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everything else is secondary.

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And Palacios's poems are
a special kind of magic,

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weaving shadow into shadow,
summoning old songs,

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playing in abandoned malls or
half remembered, post-colonial

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but not too boring about it
ghosts who live in the static

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after the song has faded.

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His primary ability
is intelligence,

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with a lingering
sense of sadness.

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Mysterious, layered, laconic.

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His spellbook, A Ten Peso
Burial For Which Truth I Sign,

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feels to me like a secret that
could unlock the path to a power

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greater than any magic
available in the present age.

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Which is why you should buy
it and listen to him now.

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Gabriel Palacios.

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[APPLAUSE]