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What can I say that I have not said before?
So I’ll say it again.
The leaf has a song in it.
Stone is the face of patience.
Inside the river there is an unfinishable story
and you are somewhere in it
and it will never end until all ends.

Take your busy heart to the art museum and the
chamber of commerce
but take it also to the forest.
The song you heard singing in the leaf when you
were a child
is singing still.
I am of years lived, so far, seventy-four,
and the leaf is singing still.

~ “What Can I Say” from Swan by Mary Oliver ~

The stand-in-line society that is present-day Cuba 🇨🇺 Queues are common sights in the streets, consistently without rigid formations 🕸️ Not everyone carries a phone and only a minority have mobile internet 📵 So what do the Cubans do while acting out this scene repeatly? Well, they pass the time joking, gossiping, being idle, or even get themselves in another line if they'd want to scheme on the queue culture etiquette of "El último?" 😉