Well, I wrote a book about that called Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-Star Fantasist where I test out the idea that I only became a poet because I failed in that world.
Now they are no longer any trouble to each other he can turn things over, get down to that list of things that never happened, all of the lost unfinishable business.
My dad was a bit of a hard nut. I saw that he did help people.
Sometimes the sun spangles and we feel alive.