Imperial
“I wash my face and make lunch and let’s go! No perfume! I feel tired, not wanting to go. And then with the heat, it’s worse. At two-o’-clock I leave the house. I pay nine dollars for a ride. Sometimes it’s the same person; sometimes it’s not. The ride goes from Holtville where I live to Calexico and then to Coachella. Sometimes in Calexico we wait half an hour at Donut Avenue191 for the people to cross the border.We arrive at four A.M. Sometimes we go to Mecca; sometimes we go past Mecca toward... Indio. When it’s Mecca, we can sleep two more hours. The reason we have to get there so early is that if they change us from one field to another field they don’t want to lose time. At four A.M the foreman is already there. We sleep in the vehicle with our heads on each other’s shoulders. If it’s a station wagon, there are six or seven people inside. If it’s a van, there are nine or ten people. We don’t sleep outside, because there are snakes! We’ve seen big ones. And there are snakes with horns, short ones.MoreLess
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