A Lineage Brought to You by American Proximity

Posted bySynnika Alek-Chizoba LoftonPosted inPoems, mailbox weeklyTags:, , ,

Slap a sticker on it! Increase the marketing
 budget and sell, sell, SELL! In their eyes,

minds, lineage is just a corporate product,
a monstrosity for the colonized to juggle

in the marketplace. They create the retail
price from unhealed wounds and greedy

visions of sitting near Massa’s lap, lapdogs
enjoying the pleasures of the House,

yearning to drive the latest Cadillac or
sport the newest Jordan’s, jutting from Nike’s

swollen belly. To be colonized or not to
be colonized? That is the essential question

for anti-immigrant predators who have
been trained to hate by the machine’s

handlers, proving that shiny badges of
shame tend to twinkle in the Right light.

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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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