Rishik Dhar

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Black women have beautiful hands, and with every “fuck you” cocoa-butter stab of the air, her hands become more and more elegant. They’re the hands of a poet, one of those natural-haired, brass-bangled teacher-poets whose elegiac verse compares everything to jazz. Childbirth is like jazz. Muhammad Ali is like jazz. Philadelphia is like jazz. Jazz is like jazz. Everything is like jazz except for me. To her I’m like a remixed Anglo-Saxon appropriation of black music.
Rishik Dhar
Imagery is beautiful, its hard to understand whether the author is being sarcastic or sincere in his appreciation of beauty of Black women's hands. Too good.
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