That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
ADRIAN MATEJKABigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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I never thought I would type that I learned how to emote in poems from watching Star Trek but there it is.
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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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It’s financial of course, but it’s also the lifestyle choices. The more money people have the further away from each other they often want to be.
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But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it’s about perception and balance sometimes I think.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.
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It made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I’m terrible at writing overtly political poems.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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Bones was a grouch but he was sympathetic. The show worked like a boy band in that way… it had characters who embodied different psychic or emotional positions and that allowed me to see a great range of things
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