I had a certificate from Los Angeles Cit...

I had a certificate from Los Angeles City College where I had registered by mail using a P.O. box, remember those?

No one knows what that is, but she continues talking.

When I landed at LAX, the customs agent was a very serious Polish man who towered over me. He looked like he worked in a prison.

[... …]

Nowadays, I have a cousin who walked through the desert, swam through the ocean, and still they caught her at a McDonald’s in San Ysidro!

I told her she would have done better at the Olympics…

For Full Extended Monologue please see: Alfaro, Luis. The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro: Electricidad; Oedipus El Rey; Mojada. Ed. Rosa Andujar. (London: Methuen Drama, 2020).

• Interview with Luis Alfaro - "Rewriting Greek Tragedies as Immigrant Stories."