Projecting Blues Projecting Energy Projecting Confidence
The Matrix is unforgiving is savage is insatiable is another door floating in the American paradigm
The game is real I eat protein oatmeal
Headlines blur
The familiar suspects populate the feed
Downstairs the neighbors keep sliding the glass door shaking the floor with hip hop
It’s 8am 81 degrees outside Going for a walk at sundown sounds better than early hostile sweat that requires days of rest
Chesapeake unfolds her balmy jazz yea/ her balmy jazz A dark gray pickup truck revs its engine humming in a loading zone
A white woman loads her privileged life and patriotic dreams and ideas of American exceptionalism into the vehicle excited for her drive to the Virginia Beach Oceanfront where Conservative faces pay homage to the sea and their fictional accounts of July Fourth.
"Synnika Alek-Chizoba Lofton is an award winning poet, the president and CEO of Guerrilla Ignition LLC, host of a Nationally Syndicated radio show, and an educator, teaching literature at Chesapeake Bay Academy and English courses at Norfolk State University. Lofton has recorded more than one hundred and fifty CDs, albums, CD-singles, and mixtapes of poetry, including his highly praised debut, The New Breed. He is the author of twelve books and the founder of Riot Speech, a musical genre combining performance poetry with traditional musical forms, such as Rock, Jazz, and Hip Hop. His poems have been published in Experience Reality Magazine, Quay: A Journal of the Arts, UpStreet: A Literary Magazine, and, in 2014, Lofton has been featured in Blind Sided Magazine. He is a regular on Virginian television programs such as The Hampton Roads Show and Chesapeake’s Thinking Out Loud on WCTV. He teaches World Literature, British Literature, and Composition, while touring the country, performing at literary festivals, musical festivals, poetry readings, open mics, concerts, high schools, and colleges."
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