Unload burdens
and allow Nipsey’s
sermons to invade
noisy space between
my ears. Do you hear
them militant words,
climbing along funky
walls, breathing liberated
air? Hustle to be FREE
and respected and
loved and celebrated
and FEARED. I am…
Beautiful Monster
sometimes, skin
glistening with iced
out dreams. I am…
different, baby; WE
are different–maybe
–too jazzy to live
in cages, too focused
on deceptive sunlight
in crowded streets or
in growling traffic to
worry about feverish
bullets (screaming names)
or American Crosshairs
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Published by Synnika Chizoba Lofton
"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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