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OK, this next poem, the
very first part of this poem

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is ripped directly
from a Facebook group

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called Reporte de Puentes.

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And on Reporte de Puentes,
it's a Facebook group

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that lets people who are
traveling from Juarez to El Paso

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know how long the lines
are at the port of entry

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at the different bridges.

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I translated it into English.

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But yeah, this first one
is just a comment that's

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ripped from this Facebook page.

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There's a couple.

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This is definitely a new one.

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This is not really in
the Border Simulator.

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There's a character, Nefta,
his sister, Ceme, [? Cemeli ?].

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And then there's a
coyote named Eddie.

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Yeah, they're characters in
this world that are trying--

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this is very, very new.

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"Nefta's Interview Answer 2."

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I'm on foot crossing the Santa
Fe Bridge and the mile to get in

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is a long line.

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Hey, I'm going to go door
to door selling remodeling

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services and that way,
I'll get my big commission,

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get money emoji.

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I came here for work, carnal.

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Or you can say I also
seek carnal work.

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Work that wakes up the flesh;
gets the blood trading.

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I traded my life
and my life savings

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to Eddie, the
coyote of my dreams.

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He was the coyote of
my waking life, too.

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But somewhere along
the path, Eddie

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learned how to receive venmo
in my dreams and in my dreams

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I'm the original dreamer!

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I'm at White Sands
chasing Ceme down a dune.

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I'm careening down while
indistinguishable bone fragments

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surge from the ground.

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And the bones are at times
made into wind chimes

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by undead customs.

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Endless bones of crossers
humming and clanging

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in the desert over which
undead customs and their horses

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tour the gullies.

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The rhythmic musical horses.

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You hear customs chase down
crossers and lassoed them.

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But as we rewound
this video, we saw

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crossers had not been lassoed.

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They had instead been
turned into lassos, rope.

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And there's piles of these rope
crossers dotting the border

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like rattlesnakes sleeping.

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It reminds me of a time where
once I was raptured by my ID.

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Yes, my ID took me to heaven.

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And only my earthly
possessions lay

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in my wake, which is
funny because I was asleep

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and I hear that's the
best way to be raptured.

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[APPLAUSE]

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