08-29-2017, 10:58 PM
Sorry about all the tinkering. I keep going back and forth between making this a political statement -- cannibalistic, but there's a certain thrill to saying something, especially when it comes so rarely to me -- and just going the more personal, more narcissistic, more honest route. And when I posted this, I really wanted a cleaner, three-part structure, although now I find the diaristic last part distasteful. Thus, this compromise.