Achy
I'm an achy child at the end of the earth.
Doesn't matter if I pick oranges (sunkist) from the top of the billboard (it's largely immaterial)
but, what the world drops, I wait for, hat in hand.
The speaker describes himself as a sore, weary child stranded "at the end of the earth," a place that feels remote and forgotten. The word "achy" is simple and childlike, but it hints at a tiredness that goes beyond the body, a general ache of being left out or overlooked.
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