Refusing to Eat Polluted Pies

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

Fake praises fall on
deaf ears. I submit

to no dead sun or man
or woman or upright

snake or politician,
sporting a power tie,

and repressive beliefs.
This dystopia smokes

and changes. Traffic
signals burn night,

like tall djembes in a
Black art gallery, in

Ghent. In Ghent, I mis-
behave. Jazz drips from

fingertips. Verses crawl
from lips, using skin

as platforms for rage,
for resistance, for

large fists, clenching
hope, like the 1960s

lean on Colley Ave.
This night sleeps.

I stretch. I yawn. I pray
for gradual decay, 

for savagery to cease,
for flesh eating music

to stop its steady drum
beat toward complete

annihilation. I gamble
with American sorcery,

trying to hit my numbers.
Standing in a smoky

pulpit, shaping this
slightly humble square,

refusing to eat polluted
pies. I pledge allegiance

to revolt’s boogie. This
is how life bends. BENDS.

Justice dances on hot
sidewalk, turning up

her nose. The sky’s belly
surrounds evening.

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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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