Daggered Intellectuals
And therefore I must walk back to the beginning
Back to my beginning
And retrace my steps like a dancer
Reintroduced to walking
To leaping and twirls
I must re-exercise my writing skills and techniques
Must protect myself and my thoughts
Must protect my imagination from their swords
Must protect my inner fire from their
thrown, dumped and sprinkled
Water
Must shield myself with God
Must hide myself from their devilish talk
Must cloak my feelings in the midst of the enemy
and they are the enemy although they smile
They are the enemy although they try to hide it
They are my enemies although they try to hold out hands
as if to help
When all they desire is to drag my soul outside me
Gut me from the inside out
And leave my mind a corpse
And lifeless
As much as they have always been and ever were
— these academics are a plague
Void of imagination
Dead to creativity
Hello! We’re D.J. Hoskins
We are Davena and Jason Hoskins, co-authors of 30+ books and siblings who write under the pseudonym D.J. Hoskins. Three years apart and in our twenties, we have been fascinated by stories from a young age. Davena is a student attending Princeton University, and Jason attends Georgetown University.
