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 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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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.

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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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One Possibility Thing Took
I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.

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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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Being Getting PIcked
By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.

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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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Amplify Mean Mythological Trying Version
There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.

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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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Back Way Written
Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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Balance Bigotry Line Over Perception Regional
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 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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Emote Learned never Though Type Watching
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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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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Made Political
The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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Between Contrast Have Not
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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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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Casting Kid Model Possibilities Rerun Star
One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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Fully Hardest Mean Thing
I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.

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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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Geeky Kid Mythological Nothing
That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.

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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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Much One Surprised Thing Writing. Poem
It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.

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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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After Way
I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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All Language Learned Mean New Nineties Some Way
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 Grouch Posotion Sympathetic Worked
The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
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Also Bunch Gender Insecurity Language Paramount Race Shoe Soft

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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