I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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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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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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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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It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid.
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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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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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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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But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it’s about perception and balance sometimes I think.
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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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