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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But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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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 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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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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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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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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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the 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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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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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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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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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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