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This is called "El
Periferico or sleep."

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"A man throws 10,000 shovels
of gravel at a window screen,

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propped upside a
wheelbarrow so only

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the powder passes into the
wheelbarrow and the gray rocks

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fall to the ground.

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You must have died
once to live like this.

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Yeah he says I died once
and I had lost my ear,

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so I was looking
for it in a field

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and the stars were
like a seiner's net

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and then they were
like a system of nerves

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and then they were like a sieve
I came through that right back

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into this country and got
a job and married the woman

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the first two things she said
to me in that fiery field

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holding in her hands, my ear
were how this country now

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is full only of
pilgrims and residue

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and her name is Beatriz ending
like light ends with a z."