I never thought I would type that I learned how to emote in poems from watching Star Trek but there it is.
ADRIAN MATEJKABut 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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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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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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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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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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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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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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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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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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It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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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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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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The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
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