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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.

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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the 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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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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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 learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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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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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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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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