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68 the minnesota review Elizabeth Fifer In the Town of Copan Ruins, Honduras Antonio has so many songs, all from the A.M. radio and the Fifties— he sings Nel Bleu di Pinto di Bleu and Mi Corazón keeping his lips down over missing teeth as he strums his guitar into the dark. The guests are sleeping, it's past ten, roosters will wake us at four, but now it's Let Me Go Lover and Devil Lips for the foreign ladies, mostly missionaries and nuns. We laugh hysterically over the lyrics and someone asks for one from the Spanish Civil War. Antonio suddenly is serious. He clears his throat sings of torture and confession and the joys of life after generals and kings. ...

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