I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
ADRIAN MATEJKAThe contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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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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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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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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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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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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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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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid.
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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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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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