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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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Began Compositional Emulation Neighbourhood Old Poem Process Siqueiros
I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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Balance Bigotry Line Over Perception Place Regional State Thinking
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
I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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Actually Before Getting Good Language Mean People Thing Think
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 Poem Though Type Watching
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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Balance Excellent Fortunately Over Perception Place Sometimes
There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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Back Come Poem Way Written
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
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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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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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
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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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
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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Away Choice Each Financial Further Lifestyle More Often Other People

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