One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI 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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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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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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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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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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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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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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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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I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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So while I loved not being hungry and having new gear, etc. I missed the sounds of my neighbors and the kind of generosity people who are struggling together often show.
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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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