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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.

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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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Began Compositional Emulation Neighbourhood Old Poem Process Siqueiros
Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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Before Food Insecurity System Thinking
I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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Like Spock Unflappable Wanted
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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Generosity Hungry Loved MIssed Neighbour Show Sound Struggling Together
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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Creates Detail Echo Interlocking Painting Scream Spun Tension
One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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Emotional One Possibility Show Thing Took
Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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Balance Bigotry Line Over Perception Place Regional State Thinking
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
But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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Become Clear Country Nine Past Resent Speak Thinking Very Year
By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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Amplify Honest Mean Myself Mythological Trying Version
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
I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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Black Country Geeky Kid Mythological Nothing Poor
Bones was a grouch but he was sympathetic. The show worked like a boy band in that way… it had characters who embodied different psychic or emotional positions and that allowed me to see a great range of things
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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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Back Come Poem Way Written
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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Change Made Poem Political Terrible Writing
I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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