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OK.

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Yeah, I'm going to
do two more poems.

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And this one is also not
a Border Simulator poem.

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And it's a send-off
to my cousin Pocker.

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He moved to Midland-Odessa to
go work in the oil fields there.

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And he was working
midnight shifts.

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He fell asleep at the
wheel, and he passed away

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in a car accident.

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But yeah, I love
my cousin Pocker.

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He was called Pocker because
when he was three years old,

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he couldn't say his name or his
dad's name, which was Oscar.

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So he said, Pocker.

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So then that just stick with
him for the rest of his life,

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and his name was Pocker.

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So here we go.

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At my cousin Pocker's
funeral, his other family was

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asked to stand up, his gang,

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Los Archies, signed respect
to the passed cousin.

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The gang took Pocker's
certificate of debt and wrote

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across it "paid in fool."

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Pocker spent his life
introducing himself

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over and over.

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The Archies are pouring out
in the corner of the funeral

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home's parking lot.

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When he was alive, the wages

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Pocker earned were slipped into,

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like a slip 'n slide
he laid himself out

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at night.

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Instead of water there
were dollar signs

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that cruise controlled his way
to the oil fields of Odessa.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Well, thanks.