https://poetryischeating.com/Recent content on Poetry Is CheatingHugoenWed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://poetryischeating.com/essays/what-is-left/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://poetryischeating.com/essays/what-is-left/<p>What is a man for once he has done everything he was supposed to do?</p> <p>There are ways to measure a life: money earned, work accomplished, titles held, people who know your name. By most of those measures, I have done well. And still there is the question of what any of it was for.</p> <p>Camus began with a simpler question. Why not kill yourself? He thought deciding whether life is worth living was the one philosophical question that truly mattered. I used to think it was a question for men whose lives had gone wrong. It is harder to explain why a man whose life has gone exactly to plan might find himself asking it.</p>https://poetryischeating.com/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://poetryischeating.com/about/<p>Poems and essays by @PoetryIsCheating.</p>