black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Related Topics

Balance Bigotry Line Over Perception Place Regional State Thinking

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

This poem began as an emulation of Siqueiros’s compositional style and, in the process, became an ekphrastic aubade about my old neighborhood.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Began Compositional Emulation Neighbourhood Old Poem Process Siqueiros
The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Also Black Bunch Gender Insecurity Language Paramount Race Shoe Soft Thinking
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.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Away Choice Each Financial Further Lifestyle More Often Other People
The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Between Complicated Contrast Have Not
But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Become Clear Country Nine Past Resent Speak Thinking Very Year
It made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I’m terrible at writing overtly political poems.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Change Made Poem Political Terrible Writing
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 MATEJKA

Generosity Hungry Loved MIssed Neighbour Show Sound Struggling Together
That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Much One People Struggle Surprised Thing Writing Writing. Poem
I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Actually Before Getting Good Language Mean People Thing Think
But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it’s about perception and balance sometimes I think.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Balance Excellent Fortunately Over Perception Place Sometimes
I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Being Black Getting Hungry PIcked Thinking
They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Circumstance Home led Product
I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

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.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Alma Circumstance Enough Fortunate Get Gone Home Indiana Being Job Mater
There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Back Come Poem Way Written
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.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Autobiographical Enough Happened Honest More Poem

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes