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I'll read you two more and
then we'll call it a night.

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Two more.

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My dream in life has come early.

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Two beautiful children,
loving, friendly wife,

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farm that is the mirror
of this poet's soul.

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And then the world of
nightmares, terror, injustice,

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addiction, violence burst in.

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I cannot disengage my world
from the rest of humanity.

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Wind chill factor, 11 below.

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All night, wind thrashes
bare-chested trees like a West

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Texas tent evangelist.

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His and congregation
on their knees lisp

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in furious contempt sin, sin.

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Old tool shed behind
my house fisticuffs

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itself to nail loose tin.

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Horse pasture gates clank
confessions of crimes.

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While rain stampedes
on the patio,

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neighing like black stallions
fleeing gunshots of thunder.

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Miles south of here, night
scopes pick up human heat.

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That green fuzz
helicopter dash panels.

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A mama whispers,
shh, mijito, shh.

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Nomás poco más allá.

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And dunes of playing dead people
jackrabbit under strobe lights

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and cutting whack blades.

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Shh, mijito.

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The child whimpers and
staggers in blinding dust.

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Men, women, children, not
caught scratch sand up

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to sleep against warm
underbellies of roots

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and stones.

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Eventually, Juanito
comes to my door,

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sick from eating stucco chips.

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From walls of
temporary shelters,

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he scratched his meal off.

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And Enrique, who guzzled
water at industrial pipes,

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pouring green foam out at
the El Paso-Juarez border.

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And Maria, steaming with
fever like a meteorite.

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Where I come from, Señor Baca,
a woman's womb is a rock.

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Women dragged beneath
their bellies.

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Children born from
me have become dust

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under death squads' boots.

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And Juanito, Senor Baca,
they came at midnight

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for my brothers.

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I have never seen them since.

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Each judge's tongue
is a bleeding stub.

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And each lawyer's
finger is a coffin nail.

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And Enrique, you can trust
no one, Señor Baca, please.

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Each person's eye
is a damp cellar,

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where thieves and murderers
sleep in my country.

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They have found refuge
here at Black Mesa.

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The sun passes between our
lives, as between two trees

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side by side now.

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One gray and one green.

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