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OK, cool.

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So another note here.

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There's a line in this poem and
it's the title poem of the book,

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"The Border Simulator" where I'm
responding to a line from a poem

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by William Carlos Williams,
the very last stanza,

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and it's up there.

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It says, no one to
witness and adjust.

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No one to drive the car.

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And there's a response
to that in this poem,

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"The Border Simulator."

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The only thing sure in this
world is death and Texas.

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The word crosser turtles
in the throat of customs

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while a worker
steers other workers.

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She's someone to drive the car,
and sigh a co-worker's name.

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Primitivo.

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Customs is deeply
invested in watching

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Primitivo cross the border.

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Once a night, always a night.

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Some closed-eye visual.

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The border simulator.

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More like border see you later.

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Were you pure of heart when
you wrote this thing or what?

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