One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
ADRIAN MATEJKABy that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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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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I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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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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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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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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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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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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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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