Poem Written After Watching an Episode of Goliath

Posted bySynnika Chizoba LoftonPosted inmailbox weekly, PoemsTags:, , ,

California license plate on a yellow
bug. “Baby, I got your money,” she

says, misremembering the code
name. “The name is Fernando

Vasquez,” he says. A lawyer with
a bloody nose and a poor disposition

slides out of the trunk of a red 2018
Jeep Compass. Nothing to see here.

Dead metaphors and dysfunction.
More bullshit masking itself as morality.

Sort of like pigs that don’t fly straight
or fat cats that speak Newspeak,

praying to Jesus for a windfall of red
apples. They have deified Capitalism.

The church does not say amen. It
says ATM. The point is to not let the

circus gain control of government.
Refuse to allow the clowns of polluted

culture to push the buttons and steer
the ship. I sip medium blend from

a blue and white mug. The label says
Colombian. Heat swarms the porcelain

glass. I flip a tarnished dime, exit the
scene, and begin again.

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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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