The reasons for not liking that man are a bit dated. I'm 63 - hopelessly trapped in the '50s, and I don't want to get out. As originally written in the mid-late '60s, it is dated. It was about my father, but rewritten c. 1994. Therefore, I can't agree it's dated - on the contrary.
Total honesty is all it takes.
I only ask because I don't want to step on any publisher's toes. Everything I've written which has been published was either for a newspaper for which I worked, or for the Air Force. I've never tried to publish one of my poems, and none has been published. The Rose, in addition to being a sort of eulogy to my father, is a swipe at a brainwashed social culture.