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  • Don’t get it twisted, son, aka real talk
  • Jacklyn Janeksela (bio)

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

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

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