A midnight blue
Chrysler New Yorker
growls. I sit. Watching
the world zip by in a
rush. Rural landscapes
to city streets. 1986. The
boy is lit. The boy is lit,
like a militant candle,
waiting on his chance
to roll heavy dice across
unforgiving pavement.
Borderless. No flight plan
from an envious engineer.
The sun got her demons,
and I got mine. Trying to
fly and be fly, iced-out
objectives dripping from
the neck, like dreams with
clenched fists, hurling little
bodies and loud voices.
"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." View more posts
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