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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.

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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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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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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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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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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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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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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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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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