Greedy - as we try to regain and accumulate at any cost as much as possible of our lost empire, Resentful or aggressive - as we seek revenge on a social order that has cruelly cut us down to size, Alienated, lonely, suspicious - because we morbidly imagine that people, and even animals and inanimate objects, keep their distance from us, are aloof and stand-off-ish: and we refuse to see how that distance folds to nothing, so that in reality they are right with us here, our bosom companions and intimates, closer than close, Frightened - as we see ourselves to be things, at the mercy of and up
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