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

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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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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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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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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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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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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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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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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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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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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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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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