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Before stories, or first memory -- McAllen, Texas -- La migra -- Lucky -- Poem in honor of the one-year anniversary of my sister Aleida's death, which is five days -- Away -- Hammers and bricks -- Faggot -- Challenger -- El Cine Rey: la ilegal -- Kilroy -- Fear is a hurricane -- Holes in skulls -- American dream, or visiting my sister's fancy home -- From this parade float -- This fourth of July -- The fired gun -- For Tamir Rice, whom I never met -- Terrible things -- Plutonian nights -- Albright Knox Museum gift shop -- Still life with view from the window at La gras and gone with the wind hair-color test at Harry Ransom Center -- American abundance, or first trip to H.E.B. grocery store -- Covet -- Cuando me Besan -- Liebre en el ejido -- Double glass doors -- What we can all do to save my third-world country -- Drug mule -- Drug runner, or random South Texas town -- Knock -- Owl -- At the edge of Omaha -- Hanging in the F.B.I. office lounge -- Reynosa -- To the 16-year old shot by the border patrol agent -- Self-portrait with disco ball -- Translating an autopsy, or to the man autopsied into 99 pages -- What PBS has taught me -- Brilliance -- The hollow -- Ferguson, Mo -- First haiku -- Antarctica -- Unnamed in McAllen, Texas.