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"Twin Plant."

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I google and get gemela
but know cuate from coatl:

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The twin and serpent
entwined in the word,

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Mirror image of head and tail,

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Forked tongue knit of
sibling and sibilance.

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In Maquilapolis, without
the factory parts,

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The women workers in
Tijuana mime for the camera.

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They could be tethering
distant kites,

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Leading discrete symphonies,

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Churning arms in tai
chi's cloud hands,

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Rather than assembling flat
screens for a factory plant.

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Move your hands as
fast as your mouths,

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My nana says her supervisor
ordered them in Phoenix.

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She started in '68 her
line work that moved

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Duty-free parts from
factory to fábrica,

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Over the border, to be
assembled with cheaper labor.

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Retiring in the '90s, as the
murders of maquila workers were

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on the rise,

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My grandmother may have had
a part, a chip she inspected,

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Placed inside a product by
a woman working in Juárez.

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Faced with the violence, words
seem empty, feel fabricated.

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When I try imagining the
woman holding the circuit

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my grandmother inspected,

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I am shy and frightened.

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Maybe she came up to the
border from Durango or Oaxaca,

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Maybe Sinaloa, where my nana's
mom, Rosario, came up from.

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Maybe, like her, it was the
first time leaving home.

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I imagine parts of a life
but cannot know the whole.

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In Spanish class, we learn
indirect and direct object

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pronouns,

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How they connect to
the conjugated verb.

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In English, I place the who
before whom and what in the wake

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of acts.

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To think of indirect and
direct in union with my actions

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is to think in relation.

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In the syntax of
an assembly line--

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what part of speech are you?

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What part is duty-free?

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I like to imagine the
talk and clap back,

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The factory line side-eye
somehow encoded in those Phoenix

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circuits--

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Recorded, overdubbed, downloaded

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Within the
photolithographic nano-paths

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My nana Pat and her
co-workers inspected.

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Lithography originally
copied sheet music.

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Could we hear then a choir--

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a gossip of warning, of healing,
of organizing and resistance--

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Inscribed on the staff
lines of the circuit?

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Chisme is gossip
but also gadget,

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thingamajig from Latin's cimex,

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That bug and malware of whisper,

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Hack of na-huh, and
virus of ¿de veras?

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On a circuitry neither
discrete nor discreet

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but integrated with words

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And like the phones their parts
made moving at light speeds

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And faster than their
hands ever could.

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