Life can be over in the span of eight lines. Joan Murray’s poem “We Old Dudes” displays how Vonnegut’s interminable Utopian society in “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” is futile due to a lack of change. If everything is life a recurring experience, there is no chance to learn something new. Seizing the day simply doesn't exist. Thinking about how life is going to end, helps people make decisions that are important. The idea of life ending is what gets people to challenge themselves. “Depressed, Lou walked listlessly to the balcony edge, and looked up at the clean, cold, bright starts against the black velvet of infinity.” These characters have no end goal in life, and this small section shows what their life looks like. They stare at things and ponder upon meaningless things. These characters lives are useless because they have no direction. Once life ends a person can choose to believe whether their life was adequate or not. Love your life to death.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/48676
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