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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.

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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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Before Food Insecurity System Thinking
They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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Circumstance Home led Product
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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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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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
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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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
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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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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Autobiographical Enough Happened Honest More Poem
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
The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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Between Complicated Contrast Have Not
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 was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid.
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Air Bigotry Kid Ownership Since Somehow
The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
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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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