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Questions for Cuba as soon as I arrive I start the questions you watch me patiently, moist eyes, January rain I request clarity, dates, reasons you deliver songs, guavas, sugared coffee the light of a hurricane illuminates my offerings      memories, desires, hope in exchange for your fateful strength we get acquainted, barely touching in Havana      vertigo of mansions, broken streets      mildewed angels      cosmic saints of a victorious race we share words, signs of life I fall in love faint at your side you lift me from where I have fallen carry me to a green field here I forget questions, rest my mind heal my hopes in the blue air Caribbean certitude whispers      "hasta siempre," farewell      until always