THE NEZA COYOTES

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And they never regretted belonging to NEZA, no matter if in the past it was a land of salty soil, although they assured the local villagers that they came from different places.

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And the poor coyotes stay awake all night because they are afraid of the hunters' rifles and they think that one of these days they will no longer wake up at least on earth because in heaven not even God knows, while rancheros brush the manes of the racehorses at dawn when the owners of the ranch arrive.

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because they assure that people do not even know when they carry death on their backs or know when a heart beats lovingly for them and they still curse because they feel helpless, forgetting that street children are always poor during the day and in the cold of the night and they don't complain as much as you are doing.

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AND THE COYOTES FOR THERE AND THE COYOTES FOR HERE

THE DEVIL WILL DECEIVE THEM.

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And in those bitter moments I would like to disappear from the curious sights of the teenagers or simply hide under my mother's petticoats to cover me from the storm, but since God does not fulfill whims or straighten hunchbacks, what damn good is he when The Devil It buys my soul for a few dollars more and it is not the chickens on the run or the rooster with many bolts, but it is better to give up what never was.

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by

La Santa Bertha

your troubadour ass.