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Friday, 13 October 2017

History - Antonio Preciado Bedoya

Honey flowed everywhere; but that day
they gave it to me
with a rifle
in my animal spine,
and ever since then I go
from rancor to rancor,
from war to war,
with a rifle wary in my hands.

Antonio Preciado Bedoya (born 1941) Ecuador
Translated by Alexis Levitin and Fernando Iturburu
Source: Per Contra

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