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Kaijaii Gomez Wick

Don’t you know women are made of pain?
(My little girl is a terrorist. But those people
are strangers, and she’s my daughter.)
Girls don't want boys, girls want a Black Widow movie
and the head of Darren Wilson on a pike.
(A woman is a fire,
and no one is invited.
Anyone can watch.
No one can help.)
I came dressed to kill, who wanna go first?
(O, Herr God, Herr Lucifer,
Herr Doktor, Herr Professor,
Do I terrify?
Yes, yes, it is I.)
Sometimes there are stories about wolves and girls.
Girls in red. All alone in the woods. About to get eaten up.
Wolves and girls. Both have sharp teeth.
(Dear God, it’s me, Chelsea.
I'm coming for you next.)
God should have made women lethal
when he made monsters out of men.
(Girls see a lot more blood than boys.)
Yes, you killed all those people, but you’re
my sister. Come home.
(I’m shining like fireworks over your sad empty town!)
And what of my wrath?
(I am no man.)
Women are killed the most in wars.
(Ain’t I a woman?)
Out of the ash I rise with my red hair,

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