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Bilinguality’s Utility~

I think of the two languages I write in both In one I find something That I can’t find in the other

To me Spanish seems round and vegetable – English is vertical and goes Straight up into the air Like cylindrical pipes – In English it is like being inside walls – Spanish is outdoors and circles.

— Victor Hernandez Cruz

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The Love Cook

by Ron Padgett

Let me cook you some dinner. Sit down and take off your shoes and socks and in fact the rest of your clothes, have a daiquiri, turn on some music and dance around the house, inside and out, it’s night and the neighbors are sleeping, those dolts, and the stars are shining bright, and I’ve got the burners lit for you, you hungry thing.

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The More Loving One

by W.H. Auden

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.