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Mr. X Revises the Narrative

from Inheritance by Deathless Gods with Human Bods

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Somewhere in the West, 1867

X, a Chinese laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad, murders his boss after conditions for him and his fellow workers become intolerable. He runs away to Sonora, Mexico, the site of an insular Chinese community. After marrying a woman with a reputation for stealing horses and re-selling them to Spanish colonists, X absconds to the Yucatán to raise a family.

100 years later, X's descendants live in Southern California. 120 years later, one of them goes stock-still while riding the Metro to LA's Superior Court to testify at a criminal trial. This is what J. Doe sees:

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Carve out mud
From around my soul:
I am iron
Wrapped around the fold

I am ash
Pickaxe, muscle, plan
You are a mighty man

Even if my blood
Could have solidified
When I am trapped in silver
I won’t be recognized

This is king
Struggling, heaving thing
But I’m the reason it is living

Too, I’m small
But I know what I’m owed
I will not lay this iron road

(Goliath wave, so tender, break
upon the sand behind me;
No chain resists the touch of rust;
No man will ever find me)

Even if my blood
Could have been strained and sold,
What would I be worth, encased in
Silver and mold?
I am the burdened river: once-dead
Now a daguerreotype
Even when you feel my breath on your neck
I won’t be recognized

SPOKEN:
Old friend:
This time tomorrow,
I will be forty miles deeper into the southwest.
Do not look for me.
Do not worry anymore about
the brutalities that I have wrought.
It’s all over
Today, you are a free man; you’re welcome.
Maybe someday we will meet again.
Until then, I will miss you close to me.
Forever yours,
Tu cuate, X

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from Inheritance, released May 10, 2019
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