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I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.

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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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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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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 wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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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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But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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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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I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.
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Alma Circumstance Enough Fortunate Get Gone Home Indiana Being Job Mater
Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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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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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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