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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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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
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
I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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Being Black Getting Hungry PIcked Thinking
By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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Amplify Honest Mean Myself Mythological Trying Version
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
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 wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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Like Spock Unflappable Wanted
I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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Black Country Geeky Kid Mythological Nothing Poor
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
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 contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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Between Complicated Contrast Have Not
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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Creates Detail Echo Interlocking Painting Scream Spun Tension
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
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 fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Alma Circumstance Enough Fortunate Get Gone Home Indiana Being Job Mater

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