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       At times poetry is the vertigo of bodies and the vertigo of speech and the vertigo of death;    the walk with eyes closed along the edge of the cliff, and the verbena in submarine gardens;    the laughter that sets on fire the rules and the holy commandments;    the descent of parachuting words onto the sands of the page;    the despair that boards a paper boat and crosses,    for forty nights and forty days, the night-sorrow sea and the day- sorrow desert;    the idolatry of the self and the desecration of the self and the dissipa- tion of the self;    the beheading of epithets, the burial of mirrors;    the recollection of pronouns freshly cut in the garden of Epicurus, and the garden of Netzahualcoyotl;    the flute solo on the terrace of memory and the dance of flames in the cave of thought;    the migrations of millions of verbs, wings and claws, seeds and hands;    the nouns, bony and full of roots, planted on the waves of language;    the love unseen and the love unheard and the love unsaid: the love in love. Syllables seeds.        
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