I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry. ADRIAN MATEJKA BeingGettingPIcked
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. ADRIAN MATEJKA CastingKidModelPossibilitiesRerunStar
The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again. ADRIAN MATEJKA KidPoliticalPresidentSay
I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad. ADRIAN MATEJKA AllLanguageLearnedMeanNewNinetiesSomeWay
The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount. ADRIAN MATEJKA AlsoBunchGenderInsecurityLanguageParamountRaceShoeSoft
One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem. ADRIAN MATEJKA FullyHardestMeanThing
But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it’s about perception and balance sometimes I think. ADRIAN MATEJKA BalanceExcellentFortunatelyOverPerceptionSometimes
The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated. ADRIAN MATEJKA BetweenContrastHaveNot
I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years. ADRIAN MATEJKA AlmaCircumstanceFortunateGetGoneIndiana BeingMater
One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility. ADRIAN MATEJKA OnePossibilityThingTook
