What can I use to keep you?
I give you poor streets, desperate sunsets and the moon in the broken suburbs.
I will give you a sad look at the lonely moon for a long time.
I give you my dead ancestors, and people commemorate their ghosts with marble:
My father's father died at the border of Buenos Aires. Two bullets went through his chest. He died with a beard, and the soldiers wrapped his body in cowhide. My mother's grandfather, who led 300 soldiers in Peru at the age of 24, is now a ghost on horseback.
I give you all the insight I can include in the book, all the masculinity or humor I can have in my life.
I give you the loyalty of someone you never trusted.
I give you the core that I try to preserve-the core that I don't make words and sentences, that I don't trade with my dreams, and that I'm not moved by time, joy and adversity.
I give you the memory of a yellow rose, which you saw one night many years before you were born.
I'll give you your own explanation, your own theory, your own real and amazing news.
I give you my loneliness, my darkness and my inner desire; I tried to impress you with confusion, danger and failure.
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