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.
ADRIAN MATEJKAOne of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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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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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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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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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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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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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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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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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 was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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