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Talents I peel the guava from our orchard tune up the guitar to sing my sadness on a round canvas I paint a sky with infinite moon write a thousand and one verses take you by the hand to the hill of Guiengola wear my embroidered dress to dance at the vela of Tehuantepec the night is lit with fireworks and saints in the morning reading the newspaper we put the world in order