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This poem is dedicated
to the braceros who

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were sprayed with
pesticides when they entered

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into this country to work.

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This poem is called "When They
Spray Us With Pesticides."

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Now there is a porta-potty.

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Now there is a bus with a roof.

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We are dreaming of
resting, working nightmares

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because without the
work we will die.

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And I thought to
myself the other day,

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"I wish someone would
pay me to live."

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We are at the end of
a very long dystopian

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novel that's been happening
for a few 1,000 years.

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And yet I deserve to be human.

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It's like they think
I don't know that.

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They, being the colonizer.

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They, being the fascists.

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They, being the state.

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[APPLAUSE]

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