07-07-2013, 06:39 PM
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Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods
Posts: 6,402
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HIGH TREASON
by José Emilio Pacheco
translation of “Alta traición” and comments by Dave Bonta
Quote:
I don’t love my country. Her abstract glory eludes me.
But (this may sound bad) I would give my life
for ten of her places, for certain people,
ports, pine forests, fortresses,
for a ruined city, gray and monstrous,
for several of her historical figures,
for mountains — and three or four rivers.
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