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 MATEJKABigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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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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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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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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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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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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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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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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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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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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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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