Marfa Girl Page #5

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Hm.

Who I guess you could

say is my employer

because I'm doing

a residency there.

So, if you're an

artist, where's all your paint?

At my studio.

What are you doing here?

What do you mean

what are we doing here?

What is that supposed to mean?

This isn't the border.

Yeah, right.

I mean,

y'all are Hispanic, right?

Yeah, I'm Dominican.

What, wait, what does that

have to do with anything?

How does it feel to work a job

where you're job is to bust

your own people essentially.

How do you sleep at night?

Who the hell are you to

ask me a question like that?

You don't know

anything about me.

You don't know one

thing about me.

I guess not.

You wouldn't get it,

not from where

you're coming from.

Some white privileged

girl from the suburbs

who's had everything

handed to her.

Who works for an art foundation

drawing little pictures.

No, you wouldn't get it.

To you

that's a job, gimme a second.

To you that's a job.

Yeah, that's my job,

Yeah, wow, what responsibility.

You got a family?

You got any kids? Sick mom? Huh?

Dad in jail? Anything like that?

No.

So you have no idea why I do it.

Do you know how many

of you artists come

through here flipping

your nose at us

because we have to do a

job to feed out children?

You choose the job.

I do? Look around you,

there's nothing to choose here.

What am I gonna do,

work at Dairy Queen?

Sorry, man,

but this is really just a job.

Border patrol is pretty much the

only thing was gonna hire me.

So, that's that.

Do you have any

illegals in your family?

Most of

my family are immigrants.

Actually my grandfather

was the first

one to come over, like, 1965.

He was a businessman over

there and like, well respected.

Mm-hmm.

He even tried to help against

Trujillo who was

dictator at the time.

Whoa.

But, uh, when it

got to be too rough

he knew it was time to leave.

Mm-hmm.

And came to the States.

Mm-hmm.

And I know what

you're getting it,

it's just I have a lot

of respect for him.

Even though...

For sure, yeah.

You know, he's

an immigrant and...

What

about you? I mean...

What about me?

Do you have

any illegals in your family?

What the hell

is that in your hand?

What?

You know I can bust

your ass right now.

Why? Why

would you do that?

Do ya'll smoke weed?

No, I don't want any,

get that sh*t out of my face.

Okay, okay, I'm sorry.

I'll just, I'll smoke

it over here, alright?

Yeah, we can't smoke weed.

Oh, really?

Yeah, they drug test us.

Oh, I see.

Smells good.

Well, like, what kind of

stuff shows up in the drug test?

Everything.

Everything?

Cocaine?

Yep.

Yeah.

What about mushrooms?

What are they like?

Afternoon, Mary.

Hey, Tom.

How are you?

Alright.

Good.

How's Adam?

Adam's fine, you were a little

rough with him the other night.

I know, I apologize,

he shouldn't have ran from me though.

He could have been an

illegal or there's Al Qaeda.

He's a 16 year old

kid from this town.

You know, I realize

your husband's not around,

16 is the prime age

for sexual activity.

This is what's out there.

Why you showing her that sh*t?

Hey, Chachi.

You can go play with your toy.

Hey, you can't f*** with me.

- Chachi.

- - I'm 19,

I can stay out all night.

Chachi, it's alright, man.

It's okay, it's alright.

I'll take off, I know when

I'm not welcome, I'll go.

Maybe you can skate with someone

like, on the back of your board.

Like two people?

Just like this.

Probably going downhill.

Downhill?

Yeah, probably be

the only way that would work.

So, how long is your

dad gonna be pissed for?

He'll get over it.

I gotta go, love you.

Love you, too.

You got a hot little girlfriend.

You eatin' that p*ssy?

That's some table stuff,

I'd lay her on the table,

I'd spread her legs, I'd get

my whole face down in there.

Want me to teach you something?

I don't know, what?

The woman, she

always comes first.

I wanna move to San Diego.

I wanna be a actor

when I grow up.

If I grow up, if Miguel

doesn't f***in' kill me.

It's true, everybody's probably

gonna find out about this.

Yeah.

But...

we have this moment

right now or nobody does.

Yeah, I mean,

you can't do anything

in this town without

everyone knowing about it.

Like, when I first started

smoking weed it was,

like, two days later and

everybody was asking me about it.

Really?

Yeah, it was, it was stupid.

And I didn't even

smoke with anyone.

I was pretty much by myself

and people still

found out about it.

Just I don't know how.

No, can't have this, dude.

Bye.

You want a beer?

Yeah, I'd love a beer.

Cheers.

Cheers.

Tastes great.

So, I mean, what's Oscar's deal?

Well, Border Patrol,

he's my roommate

and a coconut and...

What's a coconut?

It's something the locals call

BP's that are Latin,

he's brown on the outside

and white on the inside.

Like, he has no

love for his people,

he has no problem with his job.

I mean, he seems to love it.

Really?

Yeah, we have, you know,

we have another roommate, too.

His name's Tom,

he's a white guy,

he has a goatee, might

see him around town.

But we all live together.

Well, I got, I don't

know, I got a bunch

of that hard charging out of me.

I was in the Army for 8 years.

My first tour, I

went to Iraq twice,

and my first tour, you know,

I was like, I was kinda like

Oscar and Tom, you know.

But when you see what, like,

people really go through

and it's, you know,

it's a lot different

than in the media.

At first I hated 'em, you know,

I listened to all the propaganda

and, you know, everybody's

bad that's there.

And then the more I

was there I ended up

being in charge

of the detainees.

Like, the people that

we arrested that,

you know, were

insurgents or whatever.

When I took a look

at 'em, you know,

they weren't

dressed in uniforms,

they didn't have any weapons,

they were just people.

I was just, I don't know,

I just thought I was

gonna die every day

'cause my platoon

sergeant at the time

she volunteered me to be

the lead 50 cal gunner.

We were all truck

drivers and going

on convoys and

stuff so right when

she told me that I was like,

"Well, I'm gonna die."

And I really believed that,

so the whole time that

we were home training

I worked hard, partied hard,

and that's why I have

all these tattoos.

I just, I don't

know, like I really

thought I was gonna

die so I got like

my mom and that's

like the middle of the

Dominican flag and has

my family around it.

Who's this?

That's about my grandfather

that I told you about.

It has to do with him,

he was, like, really sick and we

thought we were gonna lose him.

And I thought that

while I was there

that he was gonna die

and so I was like,

I'll get this to kind

of commemorate him.

It represents with

death comes life.

This arm is all,

have you heard of

the book Lord of the Flies?

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, that's what this one is,

it's a...

Oh, yeah, let me see.

Yeah, look, has the conch,

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