Tethered to the Master’s Feet

Posted bySynnika Chizoba LoftonPosted inmailbox weekly, PoemsTags:, , ,

High-stepping over snake-like structures
seems to be easy when avoiding

them filthy cherry pies. I keep moving,
like grit is a small bird perched on

my shoulders. Trump hollers about
immigrants with darker hues. New

identity groups echo his hot-tempered
rhetoric, like they forgot liberation

is already in our DNA, like we forgot
that they grovel at the master’s funky

feet. They salivate for a check, hoping
to increase the brand value of Apple,

Nike, or Cadillac. I check paradigms.
Dance for revolution (raised fist logic

for tomorrow). Stay in the pocket–
KRS One screaming into the void.

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Published by Synnika Chizoba Lofton

"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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