Poor Tom

<p class=ql-align-justify>Poor Julius Dickman! He has a boatload of issues many worries and concerns. His live-with girlfriend Naomi regularly tongue-lashes him. He has a bad stutter and claustrophobia that often leads to uncomfortable panic attacks. He has chronic insomnia in which he pops awake and immediately starts worrying and ruminating. He has no real profession. And now his widowed father Herbert the renowned classical actor has retired from his long theater career after playing King Lear the big role he waited all his life to do and is behaving very strangely. Julius wants to help to be as good a son to Herbert as Edgar in disguise as Poor Tom was to his father in <em>Lear</em>. And he'd like too to be a good father-figure to poor Benji Naomi's put-upon twelve-year-old son if he can. Julius aspires to be a mensch. But how?</p><p><br></p>