State of Mind: No Party Lines

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

A crooked smile
stretches across

a busy street. River
Birch South yawns

and pushes the
day’s hungry button.

Angry. Capitalism
needs its pound of

flesh and bone to
feel whole. WHOLE.

Greed Matters. Lives
don’t. Ignore geno-

cide, allow brutality
to breathe and grow

strong. Lethal. An idea
worth its weight in

tax dollars, wars, and
bloodshed. I am not

of this earth, a poem
outliving Orwellian

dystopia, sidestepping
donkeys and elephants,

pushing the line. They
don’t OWN me or this

hostile turf, spinning
out of control. I cross

a baking road, tapped
into a higher frequency,

reciting my gibberish,
measuring progress,

mimicking sunlight.

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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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