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If you take the train South to--

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I don't know if you
will pass to here,

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but anyway if you go to Los
Mochis down on the coast,

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your train will
stop into Sufragio,

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which is a little town several
miles outside of Mochis itself.

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Curious thing about
Mexico as I'm sure many

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of you discovered, that they
build their train stations

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outside of town.

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I don't know if that's because
of the taxi lobby or what.

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But, one night we were
starting a trip into Mexico

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and the train arrives
in Sufragio at 3:00

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in the morning, a
hellish hour in itself

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and added to that there
weren't any lights

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in that area of Mexico that
night, for whatever reason

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I don't know.

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And so you stumble
around the strange town

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and it was really
rather dangerous

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and that enters into this poem.

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Sufragio.

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By the way Sufragio means--

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I think in Spanish suffrage
like women's suffrage, what

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that has to do with the naming
of that particular place would

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be very interesting to find out.

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At first we went down the
stairs into the mouth,

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our baggage piled
on our turbans,

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hands spread over
the dirty pictures,

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guided only by a man
on the other side

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where the world went
up, a flashlight waving

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from his stomach.

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I called and you answered,
the stream of bubbles

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following in the dark describing
the birds that you carried

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on your head like an Indian.

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In round wire cages and
scrolled like your dress

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you said, like a
painting of the sea,

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but save, nodding
further into sleep

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behind lids crusted with honey.

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Going past him, he babbled what
wasn't necessary embarrassed

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we saw he had dirtied his
pants, that his head swung

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and his hands twitched like
a man talking in his sleep.

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But at the top they had
a letter in the vestibule

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among glass offices.

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We used a whole book
of matches reading

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through the irregular
verbs to find out

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in the end it was
about us, and drove off

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with a man with his hair
waving with stars down

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the straight road to
the Osmochis Noticing

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there just as promised
rows of coconut palms

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rigid in the tropical morning.

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The entrance to the old Lopez
ranch monkeys swinging in them

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and the sun even at
3 o'clock beginning

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over the Sierra Madre, and
orange splitting into a hoof.

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