ha ha....I don't even lecture to my classes. All satirical and glad that it could give you a few chuckles. Thanks for letting me know this. There is truth in this in the fact of me hating Moby Dick with a passion. j.

Thank you, Damian. j.

Oh brother...they gave us such boring books to read. Fia, thank you for replying to this piece. j.

I sure did get it....the poem is universal when readers might get something different from the poem than what exactly inspired it. j.

I feel the muse here is the dead one for eight years now. Painful loss...she is no longer inside him. Either she forced him into the drugs or he forced her out because of them. I think your poetry screams about the underside of life...the side many may not want to...