Start with abbatoir: It's a slaughterhouse. Initially, allusions to the stock exchange made me think that the abbatoir in question could be Manhattan and the stock exchange or the entire capitalist market itself.
This led me to imagine the speaker is one of those suited wall-street boys making a killing and losing his scruples because of it. He now sees it for what it is; a charnel house full of death and pestilence. "Do you see what I see...?". Specific mention of Starbuck's brand name product, "Frappucino", led me to think it represented that same mega-corporate culture that the speaker has sunken into.... Cellphone headset permanently attached, expensive coffee always in hand . You know who I'm talking about.
I feel that the speaker has become someone they had not intended to be (the 'jerk' in question). They have prioritized some kind of trade over other things or people in their life. He's up early and his "need for validation" has gone "completely berserk". Not only this, but it is a trade which has triggered the worst in this person, scrambling his "moral code" and making him immune to the horror suffered downstream from his position.
Here, he realizes it and seeks to make amends to the addressee ("dear").
Start with abbatoir: It's a slaughterhouse. Initially, allusions to the stock exchange made me think that the abbatoir in question could be Manhattan and the stock exchange or the entire capitalist market itself.
This led me to imagine the speaker is one of those suited wall-street boys making a killing and losing his scruples because of it. He now sees it for what it is; a charnel house full of death and pestilence. "Do you see what I see...?". Specific mention of Starbuck's brand name product, "Frappucino", led me to think it represented that same mega-corporate culture that the speaker has sunken into.... Cellphone headset permanently attached, expensive coffee always in hand . You know who I'm talking about.
I feel that the speaker has become someone they had not intended to be (the 'jerk' in question). They have prioritized some kind of trade over other things or people in their life. He's up early and his "need for validation" has gone "completely berserk". Not only this, but it is a trade which has triggered the worst in this person, scrambling his "moral code" and making him immune to the horror suffered downstream from his position.
Here, he realizes it and seeks to make amends to the addressee ("dear").
neh? -phase