segundo, i too tell stories

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a woman is washing
her heart with tears at the banks of a river
her tears will give the sea its salt

—and this too will be history

inside her: a man
is pulling nets from the sea
his heart gets all mixed up with the nets

inside him: a child has
hooked the man's
heart like a fish

one day the child
will grow cold and hungry
and he will set

his own heart on fire
and the man and woman
will burn in the same honey:

they will see themselves in each other
as one who looks
at a mirror
(and this mirror will never break!)

and they will burn
in the same honey
(and honey never spoils):

and this honey will
sweeten the oceans

—and this too will be history