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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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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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Like Spock Unflappable Wanted
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
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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Change Made Poem Political Terrible Writing
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
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
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
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
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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Generosity Hungry Loved MIssed Neighbour Show Sound Struggling Together
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
There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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Back Come Poem Way Written
It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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After Forever Good Hear Poetry Way
I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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Black Country Geeky Kid Mythological Nothing Poor
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
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
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
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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Always Available Casting Character Emotional Kid Model Possibilities Rerun Role Star

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