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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
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
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
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 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
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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Allowed Band Bone Boy Different Emotional Grouch Posotion Show Sympathetic Worked
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 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
You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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Album Check Forever Man Out Transformed
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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Generosity Hungry Loved MIssed Neighbour Show Sound Struggling Together
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 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
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
One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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Emotional One Possibility Show Thing Took

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