By Ben Greenman
from forthcoming collection, as yet untitled
Among the futilities of our time is the case of the renowned strongman, O. O. Samuels. He was declared “savage” because he gifted a cake by a “savage” baker to a nurses’ dance at the “savage” hospital on the “savage” side of that “savage” town. “I cannot say for certain what is at play here, but I can look in the mirror, and when I do—when I see the color of my skin, and I think about my love for it, and the historical tradition of denying that love—I feel a growing confidence that there is a web of ill intent in which I am merely a fly trapped by the spider of bigotry,” said Samuels, who holds advanced degrees in anthropology and sociology, as well as a Juris Doctorate, though he has only ever been employed by the circus.
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