The poem didn’t start as a commercial project. According to Reeves, it began as a joke. While sitting in his kitchen listening to a series of particularly sad, "maudlin" songs, he began writing down the most exaggeratedly depressing lines he could think of to poke fun at his own moody state.
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The poem is a masterclass in emotional intelligence. It validates feelings of melancholy and self-pity, but it refuses to be consumed by them. By taking your darkest, most embarrassing moments of despair and turning them into a joke, you rob them of their power. You take a "hot sorrow bath," wash with "regret shampoo," and remember: it could always be worse.
I wash my hair with regret shampoo after cleaning myself with pain soap.
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In 2016, Reeves and Grant collaborated again on a second book titled If "Ode to Happiness" is about the rain of sadness, "Shadows" is about the silhouette left behind. It is even darker, more abstract, and explores the concept of a shadow as a companion rather than an enemy.
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