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Invocation ABIGAIL CARL-KLASSEN for the wound that is staying thank you for the wound that is leaving thank you when someone says that you are acting mat valt* just smile and say thank you anywhere blows are received and brutality is revealed, take another please, thank you don’t try to fix the electric fence because prohibido el paso need not apply, thank you on behalf of the municipal education board’s school of hard knocks downtown, thank you India, foster sister locked out of the kitchen, for not snitching to Mother England, we thank you the assassin’s bullet bends toward justice but immolation’s lighter fluid says no thank you the effigy is ablaze and it’s coming down on your head, for the warning and illumination I thank you to las mujeres de Juárez who carry dead jovenes and scream “no mas sangre,” Santa Muerte says, “fuck you” for all those who left before me and to those who stayed after me I will always be grateful, thank you *Mat valt is Plautdietsch, or Mennonite Low German, for “worldly.” ♦ ♦ ♦ ...

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