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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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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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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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