By Jack Joseph Smith
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Riding the million-dollar bus among black, tall, work-thin travelers turns luxury, pocket money, and loss into a hard question about strength and being left alone in the universe.
The bus is comic and class-conscious at once, with "million dollar" sitting beside pocket money and the order to go to the back. The surrounding figures are drawn through labor and toughness, so comfort never quite becomes ease. Asking when to say "leave me alone in the universe" makes privilege feel isolating, while the refusal of loss sounds like bravado the old can no longer maintain.
'The Good Bus': black, tall and tough riders, skinny like work, traveling; speaker on the million-dollar bus will sit in the back — sophisticated somehow, can't be in a better place. 'When do you say leave me alone in the universe?' The old can't help mentioning loss.