Go quietly into that Bad night. Go quietly into the machine’s rotten belly. Inhale its metallic odor, funk. Allow the rhetoric to irritate your skin. Take them neoliberal diss tracks and ideas and dance for the pigs who know you well. A three piece suit and a slick tongue don’t change the roadblocks or conditions on the ground. No. Slave masters are not simply flawed people. I survey a broken program. Foul culture. Dead. No genocide for me. No imperialism, either. Slide into the daylight, like a vampire, a day-walker. Stop praising bullies, rapists, and colonizers. This paradigm is savage. America the Beautiful is a polluted phrase–a simple slogan for simple people.
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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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