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(after Juan Luis Guerra) from Africa to a Caribbean hill de África a las lomas del Caribe to the smiling ruin of our cities a la feliz ruina de ciudades anoint the neural vessels we refill al matorral neural en donde vive until your acid muse drowns our pities tu agria musa que ahoga soledades return us to our tribe that grew dark beans devuélvenos al semillero isleño cut through the grease of our late-night omelets metaboliza la grasa nocturna and warm this empty diner by the club trae tu calor a nuestro desvelo where luckless lovers stare at tiny screens haz que el amante no muera de sueño and poets brew old socks into psalmlets tu borra es poema que embadurna while dreaming it rains coffee from above. y sombría tu alegría de cielo.