If I Were Alive

NEED $$$ Yeah, that's what it would be like if I had a bed to sleep in. Yeah, that's what it would be like if I were alive.

A four-panel black-and-white comic shows a homeless stick figure imagining sleeping in a bed, then reveals that the figure is actually a ghost. The punchline is the bleak escalation: having no bed is bad, but being dead makes the situation impossible. It is used as a darkly absurd reaction to poverty, exhaustion, or hopelessness. EN: A four-panel black-and-white comic shows a homeless stick figure imagining sleeping in a bed, then reveals that the figure is actually a ghost. The punchline is the bleak escalation: having no bed is bad, but being dead makes the situation impossible. It is used as a darkly absurd reaction to poverty, exhaustion, or hopelessness.

• @afrosidemoon / 22477 2020-01-16