boarder patrol

some conversation highlights between
the boarder patrol officer and myself:

bp "do you know anyone in denver?"
jl "...what? ..why?"
bp "do you know anyone in DENVER!?!!"
jl "no."

after tearing apart all my belongings, the bp officer
pulls out a ziplock bag full of multivitamins.

bp "so what do we have here"
jl "multivitamins?"
bp "that's what i thought. im going to send you
back to canada."

i was eventually granted access to the US, not before
a long drawn out affair. me alone, and the drug sniffing dog.