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This is written
about a character

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that I met down in the--

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what do they call it?--

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Copper Canyon.

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Down in the Sierra Madre.

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And he was down there, he was--

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couldn't tell if he's
telling the truth or not

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but he said he was down there on
some anthropological projects.

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"The Scientist".

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"He sat on the porch.

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He loved his girl for
her different colors.

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Her body, from the neck down
and inward, from the hands.

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A rainbow he breathed over.

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The words falling
sideways from her mouth.

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Typical of Orientals.

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Down there in the
deepest of canyons

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where there were no stars.

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Even farther than we had been.

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Among the blackest of Indians.

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By day, eating
their mottled corn,

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catching the language
of their hair.

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He was coming up to go
back down in his Jeep.

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To drive around to the
forest piled with hay

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in the rainy season.

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The pharmacist from
Texas bought him

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a beer when he wrapped
himself in a blanket of skins.

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Toward midnight, in the lantern,
one yellow eye looking at us

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slid over to his ear.

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And last saw him after
the others had left

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for their tour of Guanajuato.

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Singing under his breath.

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And beating his
drum as he jogged

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toward the dirty train that
threatened to pull away,

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called the [INAUDIBLE].

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The porters in their
white frock coats,

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leaning from the
windows, waving.

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