Cosplay_is_the_Norm (Sheesh)

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

Back in the bag, or the gamble,
or the risk, rolling dice against

gray concrete, trying to fortify
wings to clip polluted skies. The

boy is too fly, unkempt, and unruly,
escaping the hot mouthed silliness

of so-called preachers, teachers,
online yuppies, and designers. No

fear up here. No fear up here among
scattered clouds. Earbuds thread

soundwaves into my brain. The usual
suspects spit them good rhymes,

them good lines: Chuck D, Nipsey,
or KRS One. One with the Creator,

searching for a higher frequency,
searching for an unscripted tomorrow,

unlike American storylines. Cosplay
is the norm, a daily fingerprint of

a crumbling empire. Crafting lines
to live, to breathe, to wiggle through

the cracks of the cage, or to bury
ICE beneath urban decay. It’s not

enough to focus on sunlight when
funky winds crash against skin.

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Published by Synnika Alek-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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