[Unedited] Richard Blanco with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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I'm a Foreign Born Cloud That's Drifted Here
Comotu, i question history's blur in my eyes each time i face a mirror. I'm lightning and the balm of rain cobto our blood rains for the dirty thirst of this land. Like thirst, like hunger, we ache with the need to save ourselves and our country from itself. At times i wish i could erase the music of my name. In spanish, at times i cherish it and despise my other syllables clashing in english. No word defines me like words. I read. My footprints like my past, erased by waves of circumstance. My future uncertain as wind, like the windd comot, i carry songs, howls whispers. Th
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