Where Art Thou Party?

Inhale decay. Gas pedal meets acceleration. 
Mind meets altitude. Metal growls. Halts.

Squeaky brakes. I-64 blues. Delayed sunlight.    
Tim B. defends the Don. Roland M. dances

for the Installed. Clenched fists raise blood
pressures. Resistance is not canceled    

subscriptions—bourgeois Civil Disobedience.
All hail Glorified Scratch Off Tickets every

four years! The story is rage, a high-
pitched mute for exhausted travelers

with long, salt and pepper beards, talking
’bout red moons and Public Enemy’s

latest cuts, contributing flesh-colored
tattoos to the brutal saga. They never

pray for Empire or paperback saviors–
a different frequency. Donkeys and

elephants shuck and jive, sporting Brooks 
Brothers, carefully weaving lies. Two-

legged sheep joyfully graze minefields,
digesting human bones. FEAR rationalizes

EVERYTHING. They celebrate grinding
gears/lives, savoring a tasteless Freedom.


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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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