AUDIO LEAK SUNDAYS: American Funk

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Morning begins.
Sun leans. 10:27am.

Protein pancakes
and boiled eggs

provide the nutrition.
Random birds

talk, whistle, bounce
from branch to

branch in neighbor-
hood trees, spray

painting natural
graffiti on greenery.

Corner boys evade
motion, the motion

of street creatures, 
looking to slap

silver rings on wrists,
sending them

young boys up
the pipeline.

Dreams crushed
to gray pavement.

Ideas of fertile
terrain tarnished.

Creed tilts her ugly
face. I find solutions

in the fray. Chuck
D runs down the

logic, offers to break
the machine. I sip

my second cup
of a strong brew,

straight, no cream,
no sugar, Black,

like night sky after
another murder,

another police
involved shooting,

another body
chalked out on

American turf.
The earth spins

on savage axis.
I wait for no savior,

leaning on a form
of liberation passed

down by blues
people and urban

shamans that pray
away the rain.

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Published by Synnika Alek-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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