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Once a month I present a selection of my poems at Foro Cultural 81, an art gallery with small auditorium in Guanajuato city center. Four poems from the sequence of poems END ALL & BE ALL "Late nude (at the artist's reception)" "Quit kiss (world without end)" "The break with her and Peter's church (over the phone)" "On the prayer queue (what will happen when it rains)"

From my work-in-progress THE ELOPEMENT, three poems. The three main characters represent three generations: the narrator, his young friend, and the friend's infant son, Tristan. These three poems are inspired by Tristan. De mi obra en proceso LA DESVIACIÓN, tres poemas. Los tres personajes principales representan a tres generaciones: el narrador, su joven amigo y el infante del amigo, Tristan. Estos tres poemas se inspiran en Tristán. "Utilitarianism" "We felt complacent knowing Tristan's future settled" "Only think of the day (if there will be such a day . . . )" "Utilitarismo" "Nos sentimos complacidos sabiend

From my work-in-progress THE ELOPEMENT, four poems - three indubitably awful and one conceivably awesome - concerning the limitations of empathy, translations by Humberto Hernández Herrera, read by us Wednesday evening at Foro Cultural 81, Guanajuato Centro. "I tell fact differently from fiction" "Turn a deaf ear, listen with an eye to determine if you love someone" "Pity me, poor hedgehog that I am" "I confess to real elation (the miniature messiah)" "Digo la realidad de manera diferente a la ficción" "Haz oidos sordos, escucha con un ojo para descubrir si amas a alguien" "Apiádense de mí, pobre erizo qu