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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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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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Become Clear Country Nine Past Resent Speak Thinking Very Year
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
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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Emote Learned never Poem Though Type Watching
I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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Actually Before Getting Good Language Mean People Thing Think
The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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Again Election Feeling Kid Political President Remember Say Writing
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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Alma Circumstance Enough Fortunate Get Gone Home Indiana Being Job Mater
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
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
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
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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Away Choice Each Financial Further Lifestyle More Often Other People
Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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Before Food Insecurity System Thinking
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
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
I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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Like Spock Unflappable Wanted
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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Autobiographical Enough Happened Honest More Poem

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