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So while I loved not being hungry and having new gear, etc. I missed the sounds of my neighbors and the kind of generosity people who are struggling together often show.
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Echo of a Scream (1937).’ I got spun out by the way he creates tension and movement through the interlocking details in the painting.
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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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Before Food Insecurity System Thinking
I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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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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Emote Learned never Poem Though Type Watching
I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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Actually Before Getting Good Language Mean People Thing Think
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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Alma Circumstance Enough Fortunate Get Gone Home Indiana Being Job Mater
The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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Between Complicated Contrast Have Not
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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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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Back Come Poem Way Written
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.
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Autobiographical Enough Happened Honest More Poem
The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
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Also Black Bunch Gender Insecurity Language Paramount Race Shoe Soft Thinking
That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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Much One People Struggle Surprised Thing Writing Writing. Poem
I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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Like Spock Unflappable Wanted

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