White Elephants Comments

I 'love' the alliterations in the poem, but I don't TOTALLY understand it; some of what he wrote sounds 'kind of' 'poetic' but that doesn't make help me understand. Certainly it seems shopping for and possessing 'things' substitute (poorly) for desires a person REALLY HAS. : )

Where are the comments? ? ? I just read Dan's 2006 (on PH) poem about suicide, and I think it is a GREAT POEM, except that MY THOUGHTS ON THE SUBJECT are 'totally' 'at odds' with his; I think suicidal people deserve counseling first but the decision is THEIRS, not Dan's! !