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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.

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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
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
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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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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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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Creates Detail Echo Interlocking Painting Scream Spun Tension
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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Allowed Band Bone Boy Different Emotional Grouch Posotion Show Sympathetic Worked
The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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Before Food Insecurity System Thinking
You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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Album Check Forever Man Out Transformed
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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Generosity Hungry Loved MIssed Neighbour Show Sound Struggling Together
I was always casting about for role models as a kid and the Star Trek was always available via reruns and also full of possibilities.
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The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
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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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Away Choice Each Financial Further Lifestyle More Often Other People
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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Change Made Poem Political Terrible Writing
Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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