- Don’t get it twisted, son, aka real talk
borders don’t just distinguish land or cultureborders are made to keep people out, too said the dumbestfucking kid in classhistory funny as fuck one girlsays to another you know, non-whitegirlsdid you hear that in the south some teachersare using text books pawning the civil war off on land disputesthe tooth suck the eye rollshe writes on the last page of chapter 6: great american heroesfuck capitalist belief systems money is not any god i followsomewhere in the near future, our history won’t exist we won’t existwe won’t exist we won’t existlike dinosaurs, like Shakespeare, like slaveryshe writes on her chair in black ink between her legs we won’t existhave you ever looked at a map and seen how crazy crooked those divisions areand what does a border really mean anyways what’s that all about, teachshe shouts and keeps a steady gaze [End Page 22] have you ever wondered why you can travel here but not over thereor why certain nationalities can’t hardly travel while americans got a golden tickether friend adds they nod in unisonconspiracy theorists dumb-ass kid sleepingthen he says it louder and addsyou are both unpatriotic he really exerts his beingbut no one backs him upno one harasses the girls everyone is silent, breathing in & out togetherlike a yoga class like a forestlike one body [End Page 23]
jacklyn janeksela, founder of Female Filet, is a Parisian-based poet who moonlights as educator, protestor, dancer, sorcerer, and truth-teller. She forms half the group of a post-punk duo called The Velblouds. Email: jacklynnyc@yahoo.com, jacklynnyc212@gmail.com