Lion’s_Mouth

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

Diving into the Lion’s mouth
to feel the warmth of the other

side. This experience is urgent
and needed. Hustle to the bag.

Hustle to be free. Hustle to eat
and rage against the machine.

The mantras are endless. The
reps continue. Infinite. A sea that

has adapted to a gentle motion.
Ebb and flow, a gambler praying

over dice. Brutal. Suppressing the
savagery of nations. A mask.

Expansive wounds refuse to heal.
They value dysfunction. Fling myself

into the teeth of the machine.
The brutality drives culture, but they

play in our faces, shucking and jiving
across pulpits and stages and

screens, losing their souls in the folds
of polluted creed. This American

thing is complex, a child with a scarred
face, dreaming about AI generated

beauty or decay. People accept smoke-
screens as parts of crooked culture.

Refuse to salute stolen prayers and
leaders who sport big red, white, and

blue clown noses. The circus show is
a church for devoted donkeys and

elephants, a place to kneel at the altar
of decay. 

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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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