I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
ADRIAN MATEJKAIt’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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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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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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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 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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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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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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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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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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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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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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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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