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So I'm going to read some poems
from The Border Simulator.

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The Border Simulator, the book
is a collection of voices.

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I think that's the
key to unlocking them.

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They're all in a
dramatic monologue

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of the voices of the characters,
Primitivo and Primitiva,

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who are sisters trying
to cross the border.

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There's also a
chorus of customs.

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They're this dark, patronizing
voice over the proceedings.

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And then we're going to come
across some new Border Simulator

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poems, where there's a new kind
of voice called undead custom.

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So they're customs,
but they're undead.

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So this poem actually missed the
cut for The Border Simulator.

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It should have been in the book,
but it got lost in the shuffle.

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And I thought it'd be cool
to share, like a B side,

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with you all.

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"Heaven is Another Seam Come
True In the Bedazzled Jean

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Factory."

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And once the seams are true
then the jeans are made

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And ready to be worn by someone
with more upward mobility,

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mobility offered
to them by the seam

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that you stitched, Primitiva,

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that made the jeans
loose in the hips

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a seam of which they are unaware

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of until they look in the mirror
and see the crosser's pantheon

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of seams.

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Ed Hardy, the god of jeans.

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But look at these jeans!

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they are badly seamed.

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Even the best seam
has an expiration date

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Anytime you rip a seam
on a pair of jeans say

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"thank you crosser
for giving my jeans

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What I can no longer attain,
an end to the fitting."

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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