I had to find a way to be more honest about what happened. And it wasn’t fun to write, even though the poems aren’t 100% autobiographical.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThis poem began as an emulation of Siqueiros’s compositional style and, in the process, became an ekphrastic aubade about my old neighborhood.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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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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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid.
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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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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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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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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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This poem began as an emulation of Siqueiros’s compositional style and, in the process, became an ekphrastic aubade about my old neighborhood.
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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