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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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Emote Learned never Poem Though Type Watching
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
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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Always Available Casting Character Emotional Kid Model Possibilities Rerun Role Star
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
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
They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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Circumstance Home led Product
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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Balance Excellent Fortunately Over Perception Place Sometimes
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
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
One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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Emotional One Possibility Show Thing Took
The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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Between Complicated Contrast Have Not
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 Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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Kirk Ladies Like Love Magnetism Wanted
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 learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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All Bad Language Learned Mean New Nineties Past Some Thinking Way

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