Strange Interlude
Black music colonizing LAX for a brief never ending instant
Music cannot be deferred. I was at the airport last week going through one of the endlessly snaking security checkpoints in massive don’t-speak-to-me headphones, bumping Beyoncé’s Renaissance, trying to avoid matching the vile disposition of the airport with my own, using music, hoping to be hijacked by the music and not the 3D reality I was navigating.…