sneering yet humane
"Sneering Yet Humane," December 19, 2022 (#353)
title from "More Deadly Decadence in 'The White Lotus'” by Inkoo Kang (November 1, 2022)
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2017)
Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy (1971)
Sneering Yet Humane
This neighborhood makes young men deaf to their elders. The money
does not arise. The fierce usages of friendship take command
the same way he does when we study for tests or before a big
figure in the wallpaper, and outside the swifts twittered down
a big-ass problem on my hands. That only lasts about ten seconds
popping them up his sleeve or into the slits of his white coat. Though
I can go out there and do a silly dance move I made up, and everyone
parked between a rusted hulk of a Cadillac and a broken-back
second time for him to stop that atrocity and come over,
he’s carrying not a microphone but my lapsometer.
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