The writer uses tactile imagery when she states, “the interior [of the glove] reminds me vaguely of fresh wood, or maybe the inside of a cardboard dryer box….” Terrance Hayes begins to reference a poem featured earlier in the book entitled “MJ Fan Letter,” in which he experiences his first brush of love with a white girl. The young girl reminisces to the mid-seventies when she first kissed a black boy “named Clarence or Terrance or Tyrone.” The young girl’s inability to remember the black boy’s name is a good implication that the relationship did not end well, or that the relationship was simply not as significant to her as it was to
The writer uses tactile imagery when she states, “the interior [of the glove] reminds me vaguely of fresh wood, or maybe the inside of a cardboard dryer box….” Terrance Hayes begins to reference a poem featured earlier in the book entitled “MJ Fan Letter,” in which he experiences his first brush of love with a white girl. The young girl reminisces to the mid-seventies when she first kissed a black boy “named Clarence or Terrance or Tyrone.” The young girl’s inability to remember the black boy’s name is a good implication that the relationship did not end well, or that the relationship was simply not as significant to her as it was to