Status Updates From 1919

74 pages

“upon seeing a picture of a car in a school book” - I wish the world was less reliant on cars

“Sightseers” (41-42) - says something about still worshipping and participating in awful things

Didactic- designed/ intended to teach

Avarice- insatiable need for profit; greediness

32-33 “Jump / Rope” - very sad

A cakewalk was a dance that enslaved Black people would do, imitating fancy white folk dancing, in order to get a cake as a prize from the “master” (see also: “that takes the cake”)

Offal- waste/ trimmings (butcher stuff was just mentioned, so probably animal remains)

“Holding hands would mean exposure and that would be the end, but each was able to lay a heavy, guarded, enshrouded palm on the shoulder of the next.”

“They look / for a lash that isn’t there, even them that never felt it.” Generational trauma maybe?