Early fall creeps into September, like Hendrix playing riffs for a light crowd. Determined to shed the dead weight of colonial creeds, actions, and pigs that don’t fly straight. Life is a traffic jam, with gritty, hip hop playlists. Them sermons got me surveying heavens. Shades sliding down my nose. Speeding across town because goals dance, like elusive muses. I can’t let well-dressed demons sidetrack the hustle. The spirit is tameless, refusing to comply with their rules and patriotic rhetoric. Hollow values. Vehicles snake down I-64, eager to hop ramps to uncertain destinations and roll them heavy dice. Change is a mind state. Transformation is an animal, a clever creature moving along land, tattooing soil with temperature, with jazz-like heat, and with a metallic attitude.
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"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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