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Driven mad by one of Garfunkel’s Still Water poems.

Lorne and Susan are a reference to Lorne Michaels and his then-wife Susan Forristal. The neighbor? Well—

The beginning of the poem, “I seem to lean on old familiar ways”, is a direct quote from Simon’s Still Crazy After All These Years:

The poem’s closing line is suitably bittersweet I think.