There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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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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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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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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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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I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.
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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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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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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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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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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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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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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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