He says he likes Mexico.
Especially all that history.
That’s what I understand
although my French
is not that good.
And wants to talk
about U.S. racism.
It’s not often he meets
Mexicans in the south of France.
He remembers
a Mexican Marlon Brando once
on French tv.
How, in westerns,
the Mexicans are always
the bad guys. And—
Is it true
all Mexicans
carry knives?
I laugh.
—Lucky for you
I’m not carrying my knife
today.
He laughs too.
—I think
the knife you carry
is
abstract.