What is the book about?
It is about whatever you want it to be about. It is roughly a near five-hundred-page poem written in a time where poetry is on life support, and no one ever wants to read it. The book has humor and yet it is sardonic. It is about the human condition in a world less and less human. It mocks and disdains corporatism. Yet it also positions the extraordinary manner people with incalculable difficulties live their lives. What will you take away from this book? That depends on who you are and what you bring to it. It is meat and potatoes served with cake and ice cream. Whatever reason you have for considering it will be found. Unlike most writings what you take away is directly correlated with what you bring. Who and what you are and believe is present in this book. Additional proof the writer of this page is not the author. I recommend the written version, but the audio resonates for most anyone listening to it. Lantern audio Brian Troxell and Amy Talmadge did the narration and brought the writing to life. I recommend you add audio to the book purchase. The book formats reference and appendix. After putting all these in play I decided to post on the website instead for broader exposure. Please forgive this Old Mariner’s dalliance.
Charles Ford Steward December 2021