The Great Slob
The Great Slob - meaning Summary
Contentment in Messy Identity
The speaker presents a blunt, self-aware portrait of habitual slovenliness and stubborn comfort in disorder. He relishes idleness and small vices while dismissing partners' complaints with crude defiance. Relationships leave and return in a repeating pattern, suggesting both self-possession and a tolerance for imperfect attachments. The poem conveys acceptance of an unruly personal identity rather than a desire for reform.
Read Complete AnalysesI was always a natural slob I liked to lay upon the bed in undershirt, stained of course, and with cigarette holes shoes off, beer bottle in hand trying to shake off a difficult night say with a woman still around walking the floor, complaining about this and that and I'd work up a belch and say "HEY, YOU DON'T LIKE IT? THEN GET YOUR ASS OUT OF HERE!" I really loved myself, I really loved my slob-self and they seemed to also always leaving but almost always coming back.
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