Carried: Male Menopause (Post-retirement depression)

Identity was fully invested in function, so the end of the function reads as the end of the person rather than a change of position. What surfaces is not simply the loss of work but an older verdict returning — that acceptability depended on output and nothing else was ever established. That verdict was issued by a household run on performance, where a father's approval was the currency and it was paid only against results. What the shape asks for is one demonstration that presence without production still counts as something.

Take away what I produced and there's no one standing here.

Samson at the mill, strength gone and set to grinding, having been known for one thing his whole life. The form implies a task: to find out what is there when the strength is not the answer.