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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 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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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 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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It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid.
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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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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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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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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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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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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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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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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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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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