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So I wake from three hours of interrupted sleep this morning. My stint as a babysitter is not yet over, but at least my two nieces are still asleep.

I get up and switch on the TV, since my brother has cable. Why waste such an opportunity? I flip through channels until I get to the music channels. Apparently there is an MTV channel devoted to Spanish videos. This is pretty interesting, I think to myself. Then a new video begins, and to my horror I find the song is a Spanish gangsta rap. After waking and baking, this is one of the most surreal things to witness. During this video, which seems more 80s visually, there is a dog fucking scene. My jaw drops, but I can't look away.

I must say, that's the strangest video I've ever seen. Wait, no, Marilyn Manson's "Sweet Dreams" would take that title. But it's the strangest thing I've seen on TV in a long, long time.

Finding the Nails of Christ in a Flea Market Booth

They supposedly were real, guaranteed
to have split the wrist:
carpenter's nails, tips still stained
loganberry dark. The heads bent
to the side, as if defeated.
Beside them knelt porcelain
figures, painted caricatures
of Chaldean sages robed in dust.

But the biggest deal that day
was on Japanese knives, curved like
jaguar claws, in the booth next door.