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On poetry and culture shock
Because the blogosphere needs haikus.
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GUIRI: In Spain, a foreign person, especially a tourist. For my friends, it also applies to me, a Spanish woman who likes to live in English-speaking countries.

I have wanted to be online for a long time, but I never found the time to teach myself how to make a proper website. Now that getting a blog is technnically as easy as getting a Yahoo email address, it seems a start.

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Brief comments on what it means to be a foreigner in an American University town.

Poetry, mostly my own, and bits of other people's.

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Whole Truth and Nothing by Noah Grossman
This is the second poem by Noah Grossman I post here. I took it from the Spring 2004 issue of Plug and I liked it so much that I translated it.

Cheated,
Because of
You
I fume.

Because of
Composure only,
I fume
Silently.

Composure only,
I repeat
Silently
On.

I repeatedly
Cheated
On
You.

Toda la Verdad y Nada.

Engañado
Por tu culpa
Yo
Me enfado.

Sólo por
Guardar las apariencias
Yo me enfado
En silencio.

Guardar las apariencias,
Una y otra vez
Me
Repito.

Una y otra vez,
Yo
te he
engañado.
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