Status Updates From The Poet's Homecoming

It was an excellent writer/poet tale. Every young writer is a critic until they have lived more. I would give this book to a young poet and know they will write better for it.

“that it is unmanly to show one’s feelings is an untrue superstition prevalent with all English-speaking people”
okay old man you’re getting somewhere! i’m proud of you 1887! no need to leave it at a vague gesture, you’re a smart guy you can unpack something like this i believe in you, you’re knee deep in the church, you’re surrounded by evidence!

much to my surprise, this is tremendously entertaining