Step through empire, leave ruins on the bottom of black boots–lace them things for struggle, for the gamble, for the hustle, for the swollen knuckles, for the donkeys, for the elephants, for the fat cats. Swell the chest and smile for the cameras. James Brown screams a soulful riff from a nearby corner. I raise a fist, a voice, a way to connect with resistance, with a culture that is allergic to living on knees. Just a flightless eagle occupying space, living to avoid poisonous winds and kiss the sky.
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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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