I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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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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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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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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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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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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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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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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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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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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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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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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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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