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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 was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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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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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
It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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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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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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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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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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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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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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I had to find a way to be more honest about what happened. And it wasn’t fun to write, even though the poems aren’t 100% autobiographical.
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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 hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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