And now I think I should read something
which is going to appear in this magazine called Crayon.
It's not that long.
So yeah, this is called "A Ten Step Program,
or a User's Guide on how Mexicans and Americans Can
Know They Have a Body."
1.
A phone call.
Receiving a phone call.
Long distance phone call.
A phone call with no bodies, just a long distance sound.
A phone call made on the subject of the arrival
of the American body.
A phone call made by the Mexican president indicating
to Castro, the Cuban horse, indicating to him, Fidel,
he has to leave our country, our body,
when the American body, the American president, the son,
arrives into our land, enters into our flesh.
Castro has to leave.
He has to leave his place so another body can take it.
He had to leave so the other body, the American one,
the son, could enter into our body, our sexual body,
the political one.
2.
Remembering we have a body by way of LDS, Language Discomfort
Syndrome.
Remember the way the body feels when the mind and the voice
switch from one language to another,
the way it's going to feel when we, "the Mexicans,"
switch into English, the way our mind and body become
disconnected when such a language event happens to us.
3.
Applying torture.
That's an easy way to find out others
do have a discourse on pain.
Applying torture or declaring war
to the body of the other, the Afghan, the Zapatista.
Destroying another body, that's a good way to find out we
may have a body too.
A discourse.
4.
Being a woman.
Moving to Juarez.
Traffic.
Moving to Juarez.
Being a woman.
Getting a job in a maquiladora.
Ford, Samsung, Matsushita, Qualcomm.
Moving to Juarez.
Getting a job in a maquiladora.
Being a woman.
Getting raped by a serial killer or a death squad.
Copy cat.
Quote.
800 women have felt that in the last 10 years in Juarez.
Becoming a body, and then being found
in an empty lot in the outskirts of the city
with a torn T-shirt that says, "California, the Golden State."
5.
Feeling stress.
Experiencing our body, thanks to the sickness
the New World Order gave us, stress.
6.
Going to the Tijuana, because Tijuana is,
according to The Simpsons, The happiest place on Earth.
And there is a maquiladora in town
where 75% of all television sets are produced.
It is also the most-crossed border
in the world and the place where thousands of Americans
hang out every weekend, the place
where, A, they have fun, B, feel beautiful and loved,
and C, in control.
Mexico is a place where Americans feel
they really are "Americans."
7.
Using language exchange rates.
Body surplus.
Violence is the American way, a quote.
And we cannot help but be Americans in that sense.
We are all Americans now, even the French.
8.
Being a man.
Moving to the border.
Finding a pollero.
Waiting for the right moment to legally cross.
No helicopters around.
No trucks.
Walking.
Hating the sun.
Being a man.
Moving to the border.
Finding a pollero.
Walking to what's called the other side.
And then, getting beaten by some American INS
agent who needs to feel his body as the body of a Real Man.
9.
Fearing another attack.
That's too another step to remember
we still have a body left.
Finally, 10.
The pleasure.
Through the pleasure.
The pleasure of uploading into the internet.
Uploading without our bodies.
The relief.
The relief of entering cyberspace,
the final common place.
Uploading ourselves into the internet without our bodies,
our bodies that hurt so much.
And viewing and buying with credit cards
the image, just the image of the bodies,
of the bodies of the others.
Restrictions apply.
Thank you.
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