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kol tuv, Ryfkah
In a message dated 09.28.02 2:37:22 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:
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<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt">Spanish
Siesta<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
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<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>The endless beaches myriad to the
horizon;<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Palm trees bend in the evening
breeze<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>I am an outcast; I ask
Elisabeth<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>For a coffee, she gives it
willingly<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>I wanted more; I’ve gone to Villa
Seca<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>And Reus, the names fall like
Spanish coins.<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt">
<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>In memory I’ve pounded this
road:<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Anyway, the bookies, the bars,
the knick-knack shops,<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>The Euro-discoes with their
pungent, techno beat:<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>In the port Tarragona,<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>A tanker lists out to sea, like a
dying whale,<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>This was the town where Pontius
Pilate was born:<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>I have made poems out of
flowers,<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Flowers with Latin names, but
somehow<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>There are no flowers here;
two American<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Tourists argue, and talk to the
Spaniards,<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Who greet me with downcast
eyes:<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>They must know I’m bad news,
there is<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Bad news in the offing, and bad
weather:<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>I read the paper, dream of
gathering mushrooms<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>In the moonlight: at the Fundacio
Joan Miro<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>I have a reunion with my
blatantly unSpanish-<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Looking amiga, reading a copy of
Ulysses<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>In Catalan:
bizarrity is compounded with<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Bizarrity, I wonder why I bother,
I could sleep<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>In the shade all day; Hasta la
vista (baby).</SPAN>
<SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt">Paul
Murphy<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
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<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
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