Everything you need to understand or teach It's like This by Stephen Dobyns.
It's like This, originally published in 1980 (and collected in 1994 in Velocities: New and Selected Poems, 1966-1992), is a not-so-pleasant look into the not-so-inspiring life of some undefined everyman. Even if it is taken on a metaphoric level, the outlook as espoused by Stephen Dobyns's poem is not good. There is existential angst lingering here, to which almost everyone can relate at various times in a lifetimethose moments when everything seems to be...