"DEAR JOHN FATE," is an allegory of human nature in which we are guided along by a narrator: a man who battles the tragedy of existence by looking for the good life, a man whose own burning city seems to be hunting him down, a man gone fully crooked as he is torn apart in a brawl with fatalism and nihilism.
Throughout this allegory, the narrator follows himself around through the lost bars and ghettos and along endless streets, finding and losing friends and lovers, and always ending up with a bottle in his hand.
As the narrator vies for solace, he is somehow unable to avoid the ever-reappearing John Fate: a personification of his inevitabilities.
While slowly destroying himself, the narrator fantasizes through an elaborate monologue of his strange slants and hard times, from which there is much to gather about who we are and how we survive together at all.
