Journalism Can’t Teach Friendships (Thank you for all the interviews throughout the years.)
This is not a Q&A
More like conversation
Building relations
Having fun in the creation
No unequal balance of power
Respecting each other
Throw out objectivity out of the water
Intelligent questions brings us closer
You guide me
And vice versa
I listen you speak
And vice versa
Give & take
Going there not pushing u over
Revealing things that's been hush hush
We both feel comfortable there's no rush rush
Exchange numbers when it comes out I'll call u up
In your own words no journalistic filters
Deep conversations
Should be the basis of journalism
Can't teach that in classroom academic education
It must be already in you as a person
Sometimes we must unlearn what we learned
To have conversations beyond I
That turns an interview
Into see the person eye to eye
This poem is for all
The interviewees that enriched me
With their conversations
That led to deeper friendships
Leroy Moore Jr.