Oh my god, the third essay - “Bomb-Ass Poetry” has me laughing so hard and with such agonized sympathy for everyone involved that I can hardly stand it. One sentence: “My poems vacillated from strained militancy and artificially extraneous pro-blackness to ballads of barely concealed desperation either enunciating the extravagant and ethereal sex I wasn‘t actually having or convincing women to drink almond milk.” 😂😂😂 DED. #BlameLoveJones
suzisteffen This essay is just ... I ... LMAO LMAO LMAO. So good: “Telling people you wanted to be a ballplayer or a rapper was essentially broadcasting that your parents failed at raising you and the only possible remedy was being duct-taped to a couch and forced to watch season two through five of *A Different World*.” 5y
suzisteffen #essays #memoir #lmao 5y