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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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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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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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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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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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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 learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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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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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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I was always casting about for role models as a kid and the Star Trek was always available via reruns and also full of possibilities.
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