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.
ADRIAN MATEJKAOne of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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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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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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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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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 wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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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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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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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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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 just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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