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The Last Person Alive

Poets take everything too seriously. They are condemnable creatures who, like rag-pickers, hunt for metaphors. My generation has had the most obsessive ones who drained metaphors out of everything, hunger included. They wrote that some were hungry for love, some for lust, some for fame, and others for money. All of them had one thing in common- they never had to go to bed hungry for food. They,…