Wake Up to Resistance

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

Flex them chops. Craft soul
until they aim faulty pistols or

use sharp knees or interpretations
of American law. No need to

comply. Refuse tradition. Establish
new religion. Normal stuff. We

are built for this savage wilderness,
this strange stage of humanity.

I start morning with a poor
disposition, a higher frequency,

a vibration screaming, like James
Brown or Bobby Womack. Militant.

Liberated. Beautiful. This form
of freedom resembles Huey

Newton in 1966 or James Baldwin
examining layers and nuances

of a flawed paradigm. Sunlight
leans on wooden steps, offering

golden carpet to a parking lot
that is pregnant with metal.

This is how most days begin.

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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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