No Half-Pints in My School Daze

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

I could worry. Or go
with God. A superior man
doesn’t fold though.

Alpha. No Greek letters.
No fraternities. No hierarchies.
No dances. No colonial

rituals or silly names to
prove my worth. No Half-
Pints. No Julians. No Daps.

No fictional Black colleges
or fairytales. Just a hustle,
a third eye, and a focused

disposition. Grind and work
ethic. Outrun the machine.
No emotions to alter the

flames. I roll loaded dice,
flashing smirks, smiles, and
strange grins, shining like

an eagle that refuses to pay
homage to broken countries,
broken cultures. Traffic

is heavy. GPS is severely
fried. Every route is blocked
by noise and metal. Solid

red bars got me boxed in.
Still feeling free from the rat
race. I keep pace with

higher frequencies, while
a Norfolk morning casts
her familiar spell.  

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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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