She’s scared we won’t see each other again.

We won’t see each other again, I’m certain.

Within three days of getting there

a crooked cop will take her to the border.

Along the way she will see desert flowers and lizards.

It will be a spectacular experience

and the pocket of the cop

will go home with eight hundred dollars in it.

My girlfriend started eating a guava and a tooth fell out.

Specifically, it was the molar that sits next to the canine.

Now she looks like she has a stone where the tooth was.

My girlfriend is worried about the tooth and I am worried about the border.

Teeth and borders put us on edge.