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“I am like an otter”

By Pancho Nácar

October 29, 2005

Mexico

Note: This poem was originally written in Zapoteco.

I am like an otter
when he crosses the rivers
and the sea,
I do not need a ship to sail.

Note: This poem was originally written in Zapoteco.

I am like an otter
when he crosses the rivers
and the sea,
I do not need a ship to sail.

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