Not of this planet. Navigating polluted winds is essential, like jazz finding synergy after a few minutes. Coltrane’s code to the heavens. American politics are boring. I stretch. I yawn. I liberate with each breath. A metallic voice. Crossroads two-step. Cosmos is the goal, a provocative objective that simmers, like spicy gumbo. National Guard troops in D.C. are just political theater. Fascism is the spook, sitting by the door. So-called Americans pledge to colonial residue, gathering like locusts on decaying minds. Black MAGA tap dance all over social media, puppets committed to tightrope walks and stuffy Conservative spaces. Just another ‘Murican Monday. This funky belly is savage, without pleasant melodies. I tip toward sunlight, leaning into hostile breezes, like Nina Simone defining freedom for mixed company.
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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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