Sundays in the Machine

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

Hit the pavement with aggression.
This race toward heaven got bluesy
stories and risky gambles. Break

open the machine on a Sunday
morning. Allow intentions to sidestep
traditions and polluted creeds.

D.C. politics still rage. A Chicago
mayor ain’t got time for toddlers
that soil Oval offices, cosplaying

for the cameras, deflecting short
attention spans. Strength is not
really what it seems in the

American paradigm. I focus on
testing fences for weaknesses,
or the last song Nipsey Hussle

preached into my hungry ears.
I whistle into late summer’s
humidity, avoiding the bars

of a tarnished cage, inspiring
overworked citizens to fight their
equally stressed-out neighbors.

The pulse is militant. Fills the
chest with daily rage, feeding
my restless agenda.

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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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