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We all receive the invitation.

We have lived on the horizon for so long,

coasts no longer know our flags.

They buried us where they bury ships,

Commonwealth projects, and literary whales,

which represent no threat.

Someday, a great writer will claim

we were an idea the breadth of an ocean

and, being dead, we will agree.

Translated from the Spanish by the author

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