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" ORALE "!

lucio's brother ruben had bought a quarter of a freshly
butchered pig.their mother and oldest sister and wife
made pozole. it was really fucking good !lucio ruben
their youngest brother ernesto and myself are sitting
on folding chairs beneatha shady tree in the rear yard
drinking beer. paulino enters the yard from
the kitchen door and yelps " orale "


we look at him. he is wearing a tee shirt that has black
white and bright green and blue horizontal stripes.
ruben sets down his beer and says " cabron ! what
the fuck are you wearing !?" we laugh and howl.
ernesto says "muchacho who is dressing you ?
tu madre or tu espousa !?" we laugh some more.
paulino drags a chair over and takes a beer from a case
sitting on the lawn. he opens it and says" salud amigos !
chinga tu madre !"

ruben looks at paulino and shakes his head.
the metal floding chair creaks as he lends back
" once upon a time after mining a shitload of silver
you would come back to the camp and sit around
the fire with your amigos. your hermanos. you would
drink nopales wine and smoke marijuana and eat tacos.
tacos de tripitas. later when you are feeling good you
would point your pistola at the sky

" el caballo ! POW ! "

el gallo ! POW !! POW !! "

el toro ! POW !!! POW !!! POW !!!

cabron !!!! POW POW POW POW !!!! "

ruben drains his beer bites into a lime and looks
at his brothers myself and then paulino
" hombres look at us now ! paulino is dressed like
he is a fucking contestant on sabado gigante !
how the fuckdid this happen!? " we laugh and hoot
paulino takes a drink of beer " amigos ! chinga tu madre !"