Surviving Colony: Notes on a Debate

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“You have no friends!” says
John Henrik Clarke, standing

on American lava.     Hostile
Stare. Iced-out smile. Tilted

crown. Stalling vehicles fail
to handle hazardous roads,

populated with devils’ holes
and    lifeless ideals. Liberals

step to the side of crumbling
buildings. Conservatives smirk,

turn their heads. “It’s all good,”
they say. American discourse

is a razorblade filled apple pie,
and the people eat, eat, EAT

belching     fragmented lives.
That pie speaks    polluted

steam. Talking heads bounce
and utter   dead languages.

Tribal tongues be on some
serious conformity and plan-

tation blues—colonized logic.
The people. The people. The

PEOPLE tighten ropes around
their own necks, flaunting nooses,

strutting runways, continuing
to play Master’s game.  

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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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