I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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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The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
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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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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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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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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.
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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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It’s financial of course, but it’s also the lifestyle choices. The more money people have the further away from each other they often want to be.
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