Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
ADRIAN MATEJKAIt 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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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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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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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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It’s financial of course, but it’s also the lifestyle choices. The more money people have the further away from each other they often want to be.
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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 mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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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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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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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 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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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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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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