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
ADRIAN MATEJKAYou should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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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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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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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 wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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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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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 wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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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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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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