A Lilly For Addie
The whiners whine
While the criers cry
But what about poor Addie
Who had a family
She didn't call her own
An ungrateful daughter
Psychotic son
Sloth of a husband
Bear of a son
Fish of a son
Horse is her son
And a confused fellow
She kept on the side
Holier than thou neighbor
Fell to her knees at the lies
And resentment built up
In Addie's child
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It flows pretty well, but some of it confuses me.
"And the girl pulls a knife
For a clever surprise
In the young boys heart"
Who is the girl and no one really "pulled a knife" literally or metaphorically in the story. Funny topic though.
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then later in that passage it talks about Vardamen knowing or something like that and he's cutting a fish and Dewey Dell takes his knife because he knows
or something like that, who knows Faulkner was so drunk I bet he doesn't even remember writing the book much less what happens in it, so its not our faults for not understanding what's going on
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