What I really like about this poem is how it works to create layers of observation and solidarity/alienation, but never violently - starting with "Some people/ascend out of
our life" to "some people/give
you a rose" (emphases mine); it's a really neat, structural way of showing how the 'some people' both includes and excludes you/me/us - and that's okay, that's wonderful, that's part of the experience of being human in this world - both on the outside seeing, and on the inside being.
I'm really glad you enjoyed this! (And I've also experienced the "uninvited and sit down", which has sometimes really worked out and more often really not.)
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