Hi. I speak in paragraphs (and sometimes with footnotes lol) and I tend to post paragraphs as well. You might understand my graphic poem better if you take the time to read on, but I think if you only read the graphic poem I still have reached out successfully. I know we all process information differently and this is why I have been doing more graphic presentations of my poems…
No matter how masked and unaware of myself I was in the beginning, I still nonetheless understood that I processed information differently than others. Limited assessment and funding, as well as less than accurate labelling when there was, during my** formative years didn’t help. But using books, comics, music, movies, and tv as cyphers to decrypt the world around me if you will, to understand it and my place in it helped somewhat. It was never about escapism, which others almost always thought, but about finding myself and finding my way through what seemed like a maze without a map, a role in a play with constant script revisions and no reh**earsal time…
This poem, “To Go” is based on my seeing some of myself in the** fictional character Data in Star Tr**ek: The Next Generation. Because of the character’s popularity I can only assume there are others who felt the same or almost enough, so I reworded it to be about “us” instead of just me. I hope it reaches you. Feel free, to share and re-share as you will…
