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Victory Palace's avatar

Wow, did you ever think of turning this into a novel? European literature had characters like this, not America literature so much. It doesn’t contain people who think deeply about life as far as I know.

But this guy! I could imagine him getting into some kind of situations living the way he does, writing eternal truths from the depths of his musty soul.

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Ethan Summers's avatar

The part starting from “he no longer agrees or disagrees with the sentiments of the dead….” made me think of both a gatekeeper and a priest protecting the dead and their eternal sleep. As for the rest, loneliness and poverty might very well be his blessing and his curse… thank you for the honesty of writing and for sharing such a sensitive and profound poem with us 🙏

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