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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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Balance Excellent Fortunately Over Perception Place Sometimes
The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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Between Complicated Contrast Have Not
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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Began Compositional Emulation Neighbourhood Old Poem Process Siqueiros
One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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Fully Fun Hardest Mean Open Poem Thing Writing
By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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Amplify Honest Mean Myself Mythological Trying Version
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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Creates Detail Echo Interlocking Painting Scream Spun Tension
Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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Before Food Insecurity System 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
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
I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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All Bad Language Learned Mean New Nineties Past Some Thinking Way
I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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Kirk Ladies Like Love Magnetism Wanted
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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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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It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid.
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Air Bigotry Kid Ownership Since Somehow
There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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