This poem began as an emulation of Siqueiros’s compositional style and, in the process, became an ekphrastic aubade about my old neighborhood.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI 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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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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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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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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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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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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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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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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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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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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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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