 Let's welcome Alejandro Murguia. Thanks, Jack and Dottie, for organizing this beautiful event on a beautiful day that we can reflect on what's going on. Not just in our city, but around the world, around our nation, racked with violence, intolerance, injustice, war, hatred, and a few other nouns I skipped. Not to mention spying, so I want to make sure that the NSA records everything accurately today. But it's a pleasure and honor to be here celebrating a community and celebrating the role of art and poetry in society. And although it sometimes seems absurd to think that a song or a poem or a piece of art can change society, I think it's equally absurd to think that society can be changed without art and literature and poetry, and I'm paraphrasing Eduardo Galliano, for whom we'll do an event later on in October, I think, here at the Coret. But Galliano also pointed out that we seem to be living in an upside-down world. And if you think about it for a little bit, I think he has a point in our own country, for example, corporations are considered people, but real people are targets of the police. And even in San Francisco, we can have one family own a $10 million house while 100 families are homeless. Or even in our public schools here in San Francisco, there's a shortage of over 500 public school teachers while the private schools are fully funded and have money to spare. So I guess in some ways, it is a bit of a upside-down world. El mundo al revés. It's a strange world we're living here, where fat buzzards perch on trees while good food lies on the ground and all around children in their bare feet. Yes, it's a strange world we're living here. There's some hard knocks on this block where everywhere you look, there's heavily armed cops and a body or two, like Alex Nieto, that never had a chance to scream, stop. It's hard knocks on this block. Es el mundo al revés donde van corriendo los peces y los pájaritos nadan y los gatos pardos ladran. Pues es el mundo al revés. It's a weird scene on this street where you're taught to lie and cheat, but in the end, it doesn't matter who you are. You're still just another piece of meat because it's a weird scene on Valencia Street. It's a strange world they're selling here, where no one looks you in the eye and the budget goes for hate and war and fear. So the best thing is not to buy anything because it's a strange world they're selling here. Es el mundo al revés donde van corriendo los peces y los pájaritos nadan y los gatos pardos ladran. Pues así es en este mundo al revés. Thank you. Solidarity with all of you.