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Tanka bilingue (como siempre, rompiendo estructuras. Las tankas bilingues son deficiles de encontrar)

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pilares secretos bien guardados deudas pagadas con besos a hombres foutaise vestidos de agua pillars well kept secrets debts paid with kisses to foutai se   dressed in black pilastri ben tenuto segreti debiti pagato con i baci a foutaise vestita di nero pilastra segredo bem guardado debiti paga com beijos foutaise vestidos de preto piliers des secrets bien gardés passifs hommes ont payé baiser foutaise l'eau
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She’s a homophobic warlord with a miniature bible carefully tucked in her bra dedicated to WAPA, SuperXClusivo, Cobo Santarosa, and Hector Travieso.  SuperXclusiov; This poem has been published in both the United States of America and the United Kingdom.  We are hoping that the future jingles from WAPA are a bit more specific about attacking the problem of homophobia in Puerto Rico.  The first jingle was a sad and insulting demonstration of how a Television Station is capable of fooling an audience into thinking they are part of the solution by not really saying anything specific about the issue.  We file experiences like this so that they don’t happen more than once. It started before she could read at Sunday mass she’d stare at the faces of immovable angels— La Madonna and byzantine saints in cut-glass windows—imagining herself speaking to the masses. When her boobs started growing the junior high jock, a prodigy bible belt preacher, invited her to Wa...