The man has lived most of life as a failure
A has been - a never was that happily collecting meager crumbs while literally choking on the success of others who he happened to record.
His life is lazily based on a long series of colorful poorly recorded past images of greatness he observed from afar
forever detached forever an unreliable witness a spectator
a leech a peeping Tom a shit stained gnat who never will know any modicum of success on his own merits
Forever cursed to lick the recently soiled toilet seat of his betters for some form of sustenance to survive his mistake of an existence.
I would call him a footnote but who would waste the ink to make an asterisk for someone so insignificant?