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the bus etcetera trolley then
It is a brief moment, a long
ten minutes
waiting :
I came early to the
bus
s t o p
b e n c h . . .
(only now I need to
go
)
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BUS FROM OTAY TO IRIS
the end is the beginning the
beginning is the end
yes it must above all have
a good ending and a purpose
for its existence, gringo
it must have a conclusion
it must not be
like you write only a pile of
words and what
was that
word?
-- lacuna --
yes whatever you and your words
ah Dani tu y tus capitales indianas
oh Daniel you and your Indian capitals
menuscula mayuscula
las letras
capital lowercase .
There, see what I mean? Only
a pile of
words,
Si, si, don Ramon, ya vete
al diablo y chin...g
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but omaigad how I miss him
and our long talks into the
night that become to morrow
all ready already alright
he was all right --
pues tomate una lacuna entonces
entonces tomate una lacuna pues
cimarron de cabron
RESEARCH TJ RIVERSHED
sq miles km etc
size, volume, etc
for TJmaptext part 2:
The River: factoids
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William @ Bookmakers said yesterday
You see how it is, Danial, when I got here this company was ten years behind
in its marketing - they were like taking talking walking dot matrix clip art
off of 5 inch floppies - you remember those - and I leapfrogged us right past
the 3 1/2 inch onto CDs networked together with multi hundred megabyte TIFF
files and fotosh*p (proprietary name registered we won't say it until they pay
us or better give us freeeeeeeeebeeeees [dct]) quality editing industry
standard cutting edge state of the art and VERY LATEST run off the mill heh heh
and not just for marketing to seell our product services of course but of
course but of course for the product of course for the product itself:
A GOOD GRAPHIC on the cover of one of our best selling items: the "sympathy
biographic brochure" you know those pamphlets we sell a million of them to
graveyards like Everest Gardens Cemetery, for example, a good graphic on the
cover can attract the attendant lord readers at a tsellliot sellout funeral to
actually read the paean printed inside those little books and maybe even
believe that hey, old Joe Blow Fulano Detal was a good dude after all... maybe
I will shed a tear and/or donate to his favorite charity.
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DIVIDE THE RIVER INTO SECTIONS
the rivermouth lagoon slough and swamps nature reserve
the dairymart road bridge
the borderline channel no mans land
zona rio excartolandia
aguacaliente pass narrows
la mesa valley
etcetera
etcet
etc
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after the forest of corporate signs in Otay business zone it is veryyyyyy
refreshing to see
the open fields and jagged mountain ridges as yet untouched
I wonder how many people will suffer or die up there today
not much more time, Daniel, not much more time, no
before they fill up everything with buildings and
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there was a man giving a lecture on fotosh*p @ the faire. ye solde my braine
he sold my brain on the idea and the program.
I've been using a cheaper image editing program bundled eight years ago on the
computer a friend of my parents gave them. You decide who gave what whom. It
is not as powerful as the industry standard fotosh*p but the concepts and
buzzwords CUT PASTE etc and function names you know are very much the same and
so I was able to follow the presentation in the photo exhibit lecture hall very
easily as he drew a picture or rather painted a picture digitally mmmm yes I
LUST AFTER the grass on the other side of this computer fence there is a border
which cannot flow between thee and me but must remember I am here
FIRST for text
SECOND for Tijuana and
then only
Third for all them bell dame whistles sans
merci
beaucoups
no no no il faut
que le viande est serve
avec la biere
ou vous pouvez manger du merde de
crochon
the meat must be served with beer
or you can eat pig shit
scribble scribble on the bus
look - here's our stop
n o w t a k e t h e t r a i n
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Dialogue RE PREZIDENZIAL ELECTIONS and Personal Relations
Danial and Charlene:
refried David says senator Kerry most likely got down on his hands and knees
and kissed Killary's rodham if she would only run with him but she said no she
knows like all good Demos that he's gonna lose his Kerry ass to Bush especially
as the economy improves and oh that's refried conspiracy theory for you yes and
you still listen to him?
Oh shut up, Charlene, he's my friend not yours
heh as if changing my name could make me go away or stop me criticizing either
geniuses who are obsessed or obsessives who are geniuses or criticizing your
absent minded wife either
take my wife please
no, you -- you let her make your bed now lie in it
what?
you let her make you drive on the other side because she has no license and
then she complains about the way you drive and you don't ever want to drive
again after that you don't even want to drive at all you hate cars they suck
money and pollute the air and don't give you any opportunity to stare out the
window or write like a big clunky bus does, no?
um.... well, Charlene, I
You don't even want a car at all, Danial, but you promised her if she would
live downtown with you that you would help her get one and all that but she
insisted on Otay mesa where she works and you, pussywhipped mandilon ("big-
apron") knuckled under...
That aint fair - she found a beautiful apartment!
Yes and now she rules it, doesn't she, and only tolerates your...
Oh shut up. And the other night I finally had enough, I pulled over on the
side of the road once we crossed over back into Mexico.
Yeah, but only after she bitched again and again about your shifting and you
finally said all right, tell me which gear you want me to go into, up or down,
and what did she tell you then?
She said she wasn't going to tell me, she didn't know, that I was a good enough
driver to know perfectly well what gear I should be in.
Then why did she criticise?
Because her car was complaining again. The damn motor was sputtering and
shuddering. And so I gave up and pulled over. And you know what? She drove
home perfectly well. She is a good driver. I just wish she would go get her
fucking license instead of depending on me to drive her damn half-broken down
car that we had to push three times just to start the goddamn piece of Mexican
junk.
And who is getting upset now, Danial? You cannot stand her picking at you, can
you?
No I can't.
Use a napkin. Don't lick your fingers. Rub your shirt armpits with soap
before you put them to wash. Make sure you always wear ironed shirts and
pants... and call your mother today.
Cha ching badabing.
And I suppose, Dano, that now you're going to tell me her kisses are sweeter
than wine?
Yes. They are, as a matter of fact.
And when are the blood tests?
This Saturday.
Poor little lovesick wuss.
I guess so. But lucky for me she's a cultured, smart, educated, brainy bitch
who not only understands me but can argue right back at my off the wall
political hoo ha.
Kind of like me, eh?
Well, yeah, Charlene, except my Tere is much better. She is more than just an
imagined figment I put onto this page to speak for me.
Making me jealous, am you?
No. Just crying in my beer.
Metaphorically speaking, of course, since you're finishing this at lunch at
work, eh?
Eh.
Poor little wimp.
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