Speaking of Err
We’ve gone so far in simulation and we haven’t talked
about your name, have we? They named you Primitivo
because you were the first born in the border
simulator. You can be first but that doesn’t mean
you get to stay. You’re not a permanent.
It doesn’t matter you’re a resident
because they were suspicious of your name
and you proved them right,
you were first in line but also a primitive.
You weren’t as strict as Customs, but like Popeye
said: “If I’m not me, who am I? And if I’m somebody else,
why do I look like me? I yam
what I yam” but on the border it’s camote.
—Gabriel Dozal
—found in The Border Simulator (2023)