Beautiful and Tragic

[elfs]

There are few things sadder than having a beautiful woman sit across from you on the bus, only to have her ruin your first impression by horking out a huge loogie onto the floor and then shoving a freshly stubbed cigarillo into her mouth. She had perfectly smooth, utterly black skin and a very expertly braided head of kinked cornrows, and when she answered her cell-phone she answered with a stream of unashamed obscentities that revealed way too much about her excessively ordinary love life and her miscreant boyfriend's immanent deportation from the United States.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Dunno about "tragic." So much of the ideal of "beauty" is bound up in "gender appropriateness," which is in turn informed by "class" strata and the standards thereof. (Scare quotes denote matters for which definitions differ.)

In other words, if male, the person would have been considered by some as "rough trade." Some find that attractive.

Sorry for the seriousness.

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