Sometimes It's Just the Joke You Reach for in the Dark Time, Isn't It?

As a writer, that can sometimes be like a weird, distancing thing, to try and spare yourself pain. There's that amazing raymand carver am poem called, i i think it's called, so your dog died. If i cannot go, well, at least i'll get something out of this, this heartbreak. Oh, it's kind of me trying to dehumanize myself slightly, im so i can forget that i'm the person it's happening too. I was in my novels. In fact, ia male writer in my novel called lea who spends quite a lot of time agonizing about writing matters. And then his wife just wishes he'd just hed