so then when you’re done working you load up the day’s harvest that has to be discarded onto your tractor and you start off toward the collection center and before you’ve driven five miles you start to smell the horrible stench but often when you get there the fruit dump is already closed you get there you park because it’s not like you go there you pull up and then you turn around and go back home no you spend the night there on your tractor amidst the stench and the next morning you’re in line behind the other tractors the fruit dump opens at eight thirty let’s say you’re tenth in line but you can’t understand why when they open the gates instead of taking the first then the second then the third in line you notice that tractors are arriving from who knows where pulling enormous trailers they roar past they jump the line without a second glance at anyone else under the eyes of the policemen and the treasury agents they pull in they dump their loads and they leave the hours pass the whole day goes by luckily the first two tractors in line have managed to get in you figure the next day you’ll be able to dump the fruit but the next day fifteen more tractors come and skip the line and you wonder where the hell does all this fruit come from and two tractors then two more waiting in line manage to get in so just to get rid of your load you might have to wait three or even four or five days

the truth is that when you finally get in to unload your fruit a ton of fruit has evaporated and withered away to less than six hundred pounds because in the hot sunlight it loses all its liquid and it stews down into a disgusting mash that when you dump makes you feel ill every time I vomit ten or fifteen times so I usually skipped my meal before going to that place then when you finally get a chance to unload and you’ve watched all these people do exactly what they want it might even happen that by accident you rest the tractor’s rear wheels on the truck scale and all these people start yelling at you saying move up move up you’re only supposed to weigh the trailer what the fuck are you trying to do defraud the government con the cooperative so after you’ve waited for five days after you’ve watched all those tractors pass ahead of you after watching them dump stones wood iron after watching them abuse and defraud to their hearts’ content they even insult you and humiliate you and you don’t even have the courage to say what the fuck are you saying and so you pull up you dump the horrible mess from your trailer and you head back to your orchard where in the meantime lots of fruit has fallen onto the ground so you have to pile up another load and take it back to the fruit dump