Balboa Park

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He lay his blanket underneath the 
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freeway
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as the evening sky grew dark
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took a sniff of toncho from his 
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coke can
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and headed through Balboa Park
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where the men in Mercedes
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come nightly to employ
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in the cool San Diego evening
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the services of the border boys
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He grew up near the zona norte
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with the hustlers and smugglers he
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 hung out with
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he swallowed their balloons of 
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cocaine
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brought 'em cross the 12th street 
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strip
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sleeping in a shelter
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if the night got too cold
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runnin' from the migra
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of the border patrol
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Past the Salvage yard 'cross the 
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train tracks
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and in through the storm drain
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they stretched their blankets out 
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neath the freeway
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and each one took a name
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there was x-man and cochese
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little spider his sneakers covered
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 in river mud
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they come north to California
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end up with the poison in their 
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blood

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He did what he had to do for money
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sometimes he sent home what he 
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could spare
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the rest went to hi-top sneakers and
 toncho
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and jeans like the gavatchos wear
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one night the border patrol swept 
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12th street
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a big car come fast down the 
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boulevard
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spider stood caught in it's 
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headlights
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got hit and went down hard
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as the car sped away spider held 
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his stomach
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limped to his blanket 'neath the 
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underpass
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lie there tasting his own blood on
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 his tongue
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closed his eyes and listened to the 
cars
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rushin by so fast

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