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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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David M. Poff's avatar

"He’s a man these days who

communes more with the dead

than the living, a man who finds more

beauty in the shadows than the light, a

man with empty pockets and

a heated soul —"

I am also this man... Happily.

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Weston Parker's avatar

and this is why we are poetic outlaws.

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Larry Jaffe's avatar

quite picturesque and moving. artists we are!

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Jeycin Fincher's avatar

I needed to read this... I feel renewed; and now...grateful.

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Yahya Clothier's avatar

It's beautiful and just perfect.

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Maha's avatar

Offering potent reminders and important guidance, as well as bringing gratitude for the decisions I’ve made to live a more intellectually rich and simple, unencumbered life —

“Never re-examining the

underlying deceptions

that sustain their lives, they live in the

clutches of cliches, their voices

dull and tremulous, their minds

easily susceptible to the assault

of the most ludicrous

demagoguery.”

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chris outlaw's avatar

So true yet again simply put but I recogonise it all as life but to the young hopefully relisation.We are out there.

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Peter's avatar

Thank you. I sense an autobiographical vibe.

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Dian Parker's avatar

He hits it home. I love this guy! Thank you.

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Sílvia's avatar

Beautifully written. Just beautiful 💙

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cory alexander's avatar

Loved this!

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John's avatar

Pragtig!!!! What I like about receiving these e-mails with the most incredible writings is that it touches my thinking but without bravery I cannot even think of writing stuff like this. Maybe it is the way we were brought up or I know only too well what people would say. Very little of it in support but mired in negativity and the bleeding obvious. Thanks - a keeper for me to feel encouraged in a world so centred on possessions and keeping the statuesque. Dankie baie!!!!

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Corey Smith's avatar

Saving this. Thank you.

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Alix's avatar

Applause!!! Bravo!

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