WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.940 align:middle line:84% --was asking, is there a third sonnet? 00:00:02.940 --> 00:00:05.400 align:middle line:84% There is a third sonnet to that sequence. 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:08.100 align:middle line:84% I want to read that right now for you. 00:00:08.100 --> 00:00:09.570 align:middle line:84% In the Border Triptych, the first-- 00:00:09.570 --> 00:00:12.300 align:middle line:84% in the first sonnet, the speaker is a border patrol agent. 00:00:12.300 --> 00:00:15.990 align:middle line:84% And the second sonnet is a transcript 00:00:15.990 --> 00:00:17.880 align:middle line:84% of a woman who crossed the desert, who 00:00:17.880 --> 00:00:21.390 align:middle line:90% survived a horrendous ordeal. 00:00:21.390 --> 00:00:22.860 align:middle line:90% Is it raining? 00:00:22.860 --> 00:00:24.930 align:middle line:90% Oh, my god. 00:00:24.930 --> 00:00:27.660 align:middle line:84% That's what I do miss about the desert-- 00:00:27.660 --> 00:00:29.220 align:middle line:90% the rain, like this. 00:00:29.220 --> 00:00:30.930 align:middle line:84% Growing up in Casa Grande, Arizona, 00:00:30.930 --> 00:00:32.820 align:middle line:90% we lived in a mobile home. 00:00:32.820 --> 00:00:34.020 align:middle line:90% And every time it rained-- 00:00:34.020 --> 00:00:35.400 align:middle line:84% 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning-- you 00:00:35.400 --> 00:00:37.080 align:middle line:90% would hear it on the tin roof. 00:00:37.080 --> 00:00:38.910 align:middle line:84% So I would always walk out onto the porch, 00:00:38.910 --> 00:00:43.230 align:middle line:84% no matter what time it was, to watch it rain. 00:00:43.230 --> 00:00:44.830 align:middle line:84% Great, I got to compete with this-- 00:00:44.830 --> 00:00:47.640 align:middle line:90% with beautiful, beautiful rain. 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:51.820 align:middle line:84% The third sonnet is in the voice of an unnamed narrator, 00:00:51.820 --> 00:00:56.730 align:middle line:84% a man who's crossing the border with his friend. 00:00:56.730 --> 00:01:00.090 align:middle line:90% "Border Triptych-- Three." 00:01:00.090 --> 00:01:04.620 align:middle line:84% "Sapo and I wait for the cool of night under mesquite. 00:01:04.620 --> 00:01:06.360 align:middle line:84% Three days in the desert, and we're 00:01:06.360 --> 00:01:11.550 align:middle line:84% still too close to Mexico, still so far from god. 00:01:11.550 --> 00:01:15.270 align:middle line:84% Sapo's lips-- so dry he swaps the pus leaking 00:01:15.270 --> 00:01:18.570 align:middle line:84% from the ampollas on his toes across his mouth. 00:01:18.570 --> 00:01:20.340 align:middle line:90% I flip a peso. 00:01:20.340 --> 00:01:22.200 align:middle line:90% Heads-- we continue. 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:24.630 align:middle line:84% Tails-- we walk toward the highway, 00:01:24.630 --> 00:01:27.600 align:middle line:90% thumb our way back to Nogales. 00:01:27.600 --> 00:01:31.110 align:middle line:84% The peso disappears into a nest but the hard-on 00:01:31.110 --> 00:01:35.550 align:middle line:84% inside Sapo's jeans, slightly curved, points west. 00:01:35.550 --> 00:01:38.730 align:middle line:84% I catch a cascabel and strip off its meat. 00:01:38.730 --> 00:01:41.640 align:middle line:90% Sapo mutters, No que no guey. 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:43.440 align:middle line:90% I bury its forked tongue-- 00:01:43.440 --> 00:01:47.850 align:middle line:84% for one night, our names won't flower in the devil's throat. 00:01:47.850 --> 00:01:52.800 align:middle line:84% We're Indios though no gringo will mistake us for Navajos. 00:01:52.800 --> 00:01:57.180 align:middle line:84% Above us an owl grins like Cantinflas. 00:01:57.180 --> 00:02:01.410 align:middle line:84% The arms of the saguaros strike down the hours 00:02:01.410 --> 00:02:04.590 align:middle line:90% but the sun refuses to set. 00:02:04.590 --> 00:02:07.740 align:middle line:84% Sapo shits behind a cluster of nopales, 00:02:07.740 --> 00:02:11.740 align:middle line:84% and shouts out his favorite joke, No tengo papeles! 00:02:12.420 --> 00:02:13.830 align:middle line:90% Thank you guys very much. 00:02:13.830 --> 00:02:17.180 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE]