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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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Being Black Getting Hungry PIcked Thinking
One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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Fully Fun Hardest Mean Open Poem Thing Writing
The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
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Also Black Bunch Gender Insecurity Language Paramount Race Shoe Soft Thinking
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
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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Change Made Poem Political Terrible Writing
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
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
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
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
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 wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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Like Spock Unflappable Wanted
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 will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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After Forever Good Hear Poetry Way
The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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Between Complicated Contrast Have Not
That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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Much One People Struggle Surprised Thing Writing Writing. Poem
Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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Before Food Insecurity System Thinking

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