A TEN STEP PROGRAM...
* Originally published in Crayon (2004)
A TEN STEP PROGRAM (OR A USER’S GUIDE)
ON HOW | MEXICANS AND | AMERICANS |
CAN KNOW | THEY HAVE | A BODY
1
(A phone call).
Receiving a Phone Call
(Long Distance Phone Call).
A phone call with no bodies
(Just the Long Distance Sound).
A phone call made on the subject
Of the arrival of the American Body.
A phone call made by the Mexican President
indicating to Castro
(the Cuban Horse)
Indicating to him (Fidel) he has to leave our country (our body), when the American Body, The American President (the Son) arrives into our land | enters into our flesh. (Castro has to leave). He has to leave his place so another body can take it. He had to leave so the other body, the American one (the Son) could enter into our body, our sexual body, the political one.
2
Remembering we have | A Body |
by way of LDS
(Language
Discomfort
Syndrome).
Remembering
The way the body feels
When the mind
And the voice
Switch
From one language to another.
The way it’s going to feel when we
(“The Mexicans”)
switch into English.
The way our mind and body
Become
Disconnected when such a Language Event
Happens
(to us).
3
Applying torture.
That’s an easy way
to find out
others do have
(a discourse on) pain.
Applying torture
Or
Declaring war to the body
Of the Other
(The Afghan | The Zapatista)
Destroying another body
That’s a good way
To find out
We may have a body too.
A discourse.
4
Being a woman.
Moving to Juárez.
(Traffic).
Moving to Juárez.
Being a woman.
Getting a job in a maquiladora
(Ford | Samsung | Matsuchita | Qualcom)
Moving to Juárez.
Getting a job in a maquiladora.
Being a woman.
Getting rapped
by a serial killer
or a death squad.
Copy cat. Quote.
(800 women have felt that
in the last 10 years
In Juárez)
Becoming a body.
And then being found
in an empty lot
in the outskirts of the city
with a torn T-Shirt
that says:
“California.
The Golden State”.
5
Feeling stressed.
Experiencing our body
Thanks
To the Sickness
The New World Order
Gave US:
Stress.
6
Going to Tijuana.
Because Tijuana is
(according to The Simpsons)
The happiest place on Earth.
And it is the maquiladora town
Where 75 five per cent
Of all television sets
Are produced.
It is also the most crossed border in the world, and the place where thousands of Americans, hang out every weekend, the place where:
a) They have Fun
b) Feel beautiful and loved
and C) In control.
(Mexico is the place where Americans feel they really are
“Americans”).
7
Using
Language exchange rates
(Body Surplus)
Violence is the American Way (A quote)
Violence is the American Way (A quote)
And we cannot help but to be Americans in that sense.
We are all Americans now
(even the French).
8
Being a man.
Moving to the border.
Finding a pollero.
Waiting for the right moment
to illegally cross.
No helicopters around.
No trucks.
Walking.
Hating the sun.
Being a man.
Moving to the border.
Finding a pollero.
Walking [to what’s called the Other Side].
And then, getting beaten
by some American I.N.S. Agent
Who needs to feel his body
as the body of a Real Man.
9
Fearing
Another attack.
That’s too
Another step
To remember
We still have
A body
Left.
10
(The pleasure).
(Through the pleasure)
The pleasure of uploading
into the Internet
Uploading
Without our bodies
(The Relief)
The relief of entering
Cyberspace
(The Final
Common Place)
Uploading ourselves
into the Internet
Without our bodies.
Our bodies that hurt so much
And viewing
And buying
With credit cards the image
(just the image)
(of the bodies)
(of the bodies of the others).
Restrictions apply.
