Say no to empire, to both wings of the same filthy bird. Parties of failure and gas lighters. Let the teacher bless cold classrooms with fiery lessons from US history. Let young Emmett Till get his revenge. Let Baldwin have the last laugh. Let Hendrix blues up the Star-Spangled Banner. Let James Brown play Payback until it heals the festering wounds on our bodies. Enhance the calm. Ain’t got time for the same song and dance. The game is concrete (rigged) beneath our boots. The hustle is real. The protection of one’s crown is necessary and grows into obsessive ideology, a follower following a rare drum, a drum of justice, a drum of freedom that is unfamiliar to colonial schemes. We rev bodily engines, surface for a few moments, just to take glimpses, paying homage to a peculiar lineage, to a bloodline waving fists at Tomorrow.
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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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