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To a Friend

(in the style of Pablo Neruda)

By Adrián Bleifuss Prados

You are the best American, a child with obnoxious optimism. You are loud and wonderfully impure. You are a cook and a schemer. I know the social ferment of your kitchen. You have plans and programs and radical recipes to fan the flames of discontent. You live for the new city, for its justice, for the sunny freedom of its… return to article

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