Hey! Yo! You Chicken Little?

Here’s an idiomatic US-English rendering set at a customs checkpoint in Calexico:

“I was my own damn dog to myself, barking over everything that came through.”

A more natural, punchier version would be:

“I was my own worst goat, snarling at everything that crossed my pathology.”

Likely register

The original is coarse, self-lacerating, and deliberately vulgar, with a stream-of-consciousness, anti-polished feel. It reads like angry modernist or underground prose rather than formal literature, and the bodily imagery is used for contempt, not comedy.

Period-appropriate tone

If you want it to sound more period-appropriate in English, especially with a rough border setting in Calexico, something like this fits better:

“I was my own mangy hound, lashing out at every soul that passed the line.”

Or, more plainly:

“I was a cur to myself, shitting on everything that came past the checkpoint.”

The last version is closest in force and vulgarity, while the “mangy hound” version is more literary.

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