“Postcard from Nuevo Laredo” by Dan Grossman

Federal Building in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas State, Mexico Photo by Dan Grossman

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Postcard from Nuevo Laredo

The federal building in Nuevo Laredo  
could make any architecture buff
”orgasm,” or so I read in a blog titled
Object Sexuality.  So, I came across 

the border to see it. I took photos up 
the skirt of the neoclassical facade: 
I tried to be discrete in case some 
cartel lookout wondered what 

the fuck I was doing. I’d just inhaled 
a righteous plate of huevos rancheros.
My next stop was a gift shop 
where I bought some clay figurines.

The woman behind the counter told me 
her son, who lived in Houston, often  
talked about Trump when she visited him.
“What do you talk about when he visits you?”

“Here,” she replied, “we don’t talk politics.” 
I saw fear in her eyes, and saw myself
through them: I was just a tourist 
who didn’t need to worry about getting fucked.