We live inside our parents' backstory.
Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?
When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.
Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.
If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee
As a poet who has the tools for interpreting the poem differently, you can begin to deconstruct it. But the human being who's like, "I know about conversation, I know about language, I know about hard times," will approach the poem differently.