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  • King Konnan

    Every luchador is here
    because of me.
    ¡Arriba la raza!
    They are all Mexican
    diversity hires.
    ¡Orale!

    Me—fifteen-year-old white kid—
    would fasten just the top button
    of my brother's grunge-days flannel
    and bounce in front of the television
    before mocking, first my father,
    then Keith who always materialized
    for Monday Night Nitro, loc'd out.

    We didn't know a word of Spanish,
    but we were
    Bowdy, bowdy and
    rowdy, rowdy!

    As real as it gets,
    we were dripping machismo.

    Chris Dolan is the reigning editor in chief of One Fall Review. Logan Garrels and Chris would call each other every Monday night when Konnan made an appearance and scream Spanish words at each other.

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