Maybe it's me being jaded, but I was tired of the narrator after round 3. Sort of a "Ok, buddy, what's your deal with that thing? Why do you have such a big problem with them?"
I can't say I know enough about the sad looking stump to hate them. But, can say I know quite enough about the narrator to hate them instead. Though I doubt throwing insults at them would accomplish much...
Still, good writing. Just a shame I've read into enough bleak stuff that it barely registers with me.