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Professional Résumé


let's say that you won the race
and the prize was another race
that you didn't drink victory's win
but your own salt
that you never heard the cheers
but dogs' barking
and that your shadow
was your sole
and unfair competitor


- Blanca Varela

Translated by Michael L. Smith