Maybe they will use them to absorb the flood waters? And maybe tomorrow in Las Vegas he will in a similar fashion toss boxes of tissue paper at Stephen Paddock’s victims. They can cry into them, or just enjoy his levity.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...