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My Spanish Is A Daughter's Spanish. I Write, But My Spanish Really Is Very Limited.

A Lot Of People Mistake The Persona That I Create In Poetry And Fiction With Me. A Lot Of People Claim To Know Me Who Don't Really Know Me. They Know The Work, Or They Know The Persona In The Work, And They Confuse That With Me, The Writer. They Don't Realize That The Persona Is Also A Creation And A Fabrication, A Composite Of My Friends And Myself All Pasted Together.

I Never Paid Attention When People Said, "that's Gotta Be Poetry. That's Gotta Be Fiction," Except When I Was In A Graduate Program, And You Had To Claim Your Genre.

I'm Filled With A New Joy Mixed With Old Grief.

I Think There's A Rule That Once You Want To Live Somewhere, You Can't Find A Job.