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[APPLAUSE]

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Good night.

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Thank you so much, dear Alison,
for your kindness and love,

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and you for your deep poetry,
and the extraordinary from to--

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this view-- the nature
view of the of the world.

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Thank you so much, Alison.

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Thank you to the Poetry Center.

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Thank you to Borchard
Foundation Center,

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because the support of the
fellow guys of the board chair

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foundation help me, with
the their friendship,

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to be here in this moment.

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And thank you principaly to my
family and all the migrants,

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because my visa is not a piece
of plastic, is really the--

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these poems are my real visa,
because without this poems that

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talk about the migrantes of
Central America and other

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countries, we can
not stay here today.

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My real visa are the
poetry, are the poems.

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And we don't need visa
for travel for the world.

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We need more poetry.

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And for me, the
migrants helped me.

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Many of these migrants that
are assassination and killed in

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Mexico are live here,
because cross with me.

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Are here.

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Finally, the American dream is--

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¿Cómo se dice?
¿Se puede cumplir?

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Bueno, they are here
in the Poetry Center,

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because there are here, these
people that I talk in the poems,

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are here.

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And in this night, my
friends of Chiapas,

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my friend and the
family are here.

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More then 30 years
now we are meeting.

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And the poetry join us.

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And we travel so
much from Chiapas.

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And my friend 30 years
ago migrated here.

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And we can together yesterday.

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And the poetry can
be realized this--

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Well, I initiate my lecture of
The Central American Book of the

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Dead, Libro Centroamericano
de los Muertos.

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Thank you.

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Thank you to Dan Bellm,
the translator, a friend,

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a great friend, and great
poet and translator.