One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThis 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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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 was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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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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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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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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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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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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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 mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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