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Originally Posted by John Riley
At the end, when the mountains become the backs of towering houses and the foxes are sunning themselves on the top of "the peeling roofs of the garages" the poem is both funny and sad. I like the humor but am sad for the narrator who has the humor. To over-extend my metaphor, you have slyly slipped in a moving poem about loneliness.
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Yes I see that, too. Nothing melodramatic. Both humor and sadness/loneliness naturally bleed together but do not overtake the poem's well-painted metaphor. In the end, it's a tale (maybe a long red one? Ha~!)
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