No Filter Needed

Posted bySynnika Chizoba LoftonPosted incommunity, mailbox weekly, PoemsTags:, , ,

No filter needed.
Hostile smile tells the tale.

This poem needs
no introduction. Anarchy

is written
on its skin, as well as on

liberated sky.
Forget the constant panic

in this dystopian
nightmare with patriotic

colors wrapped
around eyes that refuse

to see value (RESISTANCE),
a value that contradicts

the crumbs
of rancid apple pies,

falling from
the mouths of pigs,

sporting three-
piece suits, while dancing

around cemeteries,
squeezing blood from dollar bills.

This is how days
begin in the belly of machine,

marching toward decay
and the deaths of Dreams.

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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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