“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.” –Marianne Williamson
Allergic to nation-building and the rich blues of the Diaspora.
Them reparations checks keep xenophobes mentally enslaved,
shucking and jiving for quasi- liberation, for a sense of American-
NESS. Mediocre. It must be a cool existence to cozy up to neocolonialism
and imperialism, casting shared connections aside, like children
looking for estranged parents. Things occupy this space. Clever
hash-tags will never be freedom. Emotional rants sidestep the Root,
like She has the plague. Them bodies arrive at the Party with
death crawling along flesh and graying ideas circling their minds.
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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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