duck the cosplay. avoid the stretched-out mouths screaming about freedom from piggish lips and cracked trotters, clicking and clacking on colonial pavement. them filters don’t make much sense today. an archived revolution feels uncivilized, like a failure to launch. no one works for the people anymore, just for likes and clicks and voices hurling old rhetoric into gullible brains. the cosplay is real. the gamble remains, like an eightball forced to crash through a corner pocket or die. i size up mid-November, chalk up a revolution of my own making, refusing to bow to groupthink or the subtle way manipulation crawls into headspace. i find place within the belly of re-invention, self-reliance. i recognize limitations (now); broken wings weighed down by nostalgia and lack of vision. liberation- struggle must change and evolve or mature to a fine dust or simply risk fading away.
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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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Great post! Really enjoyed reading this. Keep up the excellent work!
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Thank you for this insightful piece. It’s given me a lot to think about.
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