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TEQUILA: in Afro​-​Cuba

from ASSORTED ONE​-​OFFS, 1997​-​2023 by Tom Ross

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I'm getting to appreciate my battery of Latin percussion, with a drum kit in the rear.

'Mescal', a refined form of 'pulque', raw booze from the blue agave, begets 'mescalito' here, although it is also a way to address the spirit of peyote.

Whether the gusano or worm bestows flavor in some tequilas is moot, as its presence also signals disease in agave. "O agave, thou art sick".

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better with the worm in it
(in the firmament)

En una gota de agua
buscando Mescalito
mejor con el gusano

In a drop, one drop of water
looking for Mescalito

A Mescalito!
E con gusano!
A Mescalito!
Where you can grow
I go

T E Q U I L A

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from ASSORTED ONE​-​OFFS, 1997​-​2023, track released December 28, 2014
based on "Tequila" by Daniel Flores.
The art is a photo of whiskey I got out of the New York Times magazine.

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Music, art, poetry spoken here!

As E Dickinson says:

Nature is what we know
but have no art to say
so impotent our wisdom is
to her simplicity

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