Groundhog_Day

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

Hungry at 5:46am. Not for food or
forms of nutrition. Resistance. Voice. 

Impact. Normal stuff. Spring’s warm
fingertips begin to break winter’s grip.

Temps start to feel like distant cousins,
stopping by on their routes home or

mama’s sweet potato pies around the
holidays. The sum of man is his reactions

to adverse conditions, to the ways broken
men wield power in the belly of a beast—

poker face for the end times. Drop them
bombs on school buildings and hide the

evidence. Hide hands. Cross fingers.
Develop false narratives. Blame others,

like savages of the first world. I stir in
my aminos, looking for answers to US

imperialism beyond the rich brown liquid,
circling a porcelain, green mug.

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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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