In the end he took the road that people usually don't take and it has made a difference. Though it doesn't necessarily mean it is a positive or negative difference.

This road was just as nice actually even maybe more so than the first road.

you have to pick one and he's sad that he couldn't take part in both decisions

two different decisions

why is it frowned upon to search for divinity in other things? such as pungent fruit and bright green wings.

she is listing all the things that describe her divinity?

cherish green wings and fruit like the thought of heaven? confused.

questioning divinity/holiness. in comparison to how she viewed the green cockatoo very much alive and beautiful this is the complete opposite. I think she's saying like if god is so divine why can't he appeal to me as much coffee, oranges and birds. which are simple things so if like she's completely undermining god.

I think here she's questioning this army. she doesn't want to contribute or be a part of it.

maybe this is how she feels about the people who follow Christianity..that they are all just a bunch of skeletons.

reminds me of like a skeleton army. like a dead person parade.

like a march or a parade.

When she starts to day dream her guilty conscience comes back and she thinks of some terrible "old" event I assume that has to do with Christianity in some way?

i think this line means the image of the cockatoo on the rug is helping to "dissipate" that feeling of being guilty for not going to church. Or not not think about it. The word "holy" and "sacrifice" relating to Jesus.

People go to church on Sunday mornings

not "late" at night, but late in the morning to be drinking coffee.

definition- a nightgown

definition- rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy

definition- a tomb or a grave

definition-feeling of quiet pleasure while unaware of potential danger.

pretty recent post holocaust world.. something to think about and would make sense as to why she doesn't like her father if he actually is a Nazis.

Does that mean she had a child who is just like him?. confused.

Pretty sure the father IS a Nazis.. this isn't just a comparison.

She believes she's nothing like her father what so ever. and shows this by saying that she's a jew because he is a german.

She says that she could never find a way to talk to "daddy" shows their relationship must have not been very good if should couldn't do that.

What purpose does the repetition serve?

She gives "Daddy" many different character forms including a vampire, a father, a Nazis. I wonder why.

tells the poem in first person

this paragraph confuses me..lol

being rich doesn't mean much because she is still a ruler without anything.

compares the rich to a large armed merchant ship.

She chooses not to eat it because she has the luxury of knowing what sadness is and how it feels like, compared to the spoiled full "birds"

Compares herself to a bird, why a bird? why not something else?

Why is ear capitalized?