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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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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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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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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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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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Bones was a grouch but he was sympathetic. The show worked like a boy band in that way… it had characters who embodied different psychic or emotional positions and that allowed me to see a great range of things
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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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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