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The Zanzibar and Other Building Poems

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The San Siva, the Titanic, the Zanzibar

Rodrigo even fabricated whole stories in the service of building an identity. He came up with one story about a ship called the San Siva. It was always known as a discrete, but very luxurious. Luxurious, lime. And they said, oh, it sounds so elegant. Rodrigo can't even remember how many times he used the same trick. Yeah. I think I made up San Sivas. I made up Norman D, which is a French name. The thing that when you mix luxury with survival of tragedies, that's very important for Chile because that's the search of status and the survival of earthquakes.

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