[ExI] Me and Poe

[Damien Broderick]

On 12/4/2009 5:20 AM, BillK wrote:

> The writer was a tortured soul.
>
> <http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alone_(Poe)>
>
> Although undated, it is thought to have been written when Poe was
> about 20 years old. In the middle of his teenage angst, gothic period.

Good catch! The teen loneliness and misery comes through with great 
precision. And, pace Lee Corbin, I'd say quite a few people on a list 
such as this would have suffered such an agony in eight fits. It 
reminded me of a tragically hip note I jotted down in a diary on a 
teenaged birthday: "Now I am 19, and still the world is full of lies & 
tears."

It still is, but you learn to cope, mostly.

Damien Broderick