Five Poems

Save the Word

Save the word
empathy, sweetheart,
for your freshmen essays.
Doesn't it make
a rather large
claim? Think you can
syphon yourself
into another human
as, in the movie,
the lively boy-ghosts
pour themselves
down the ear-holes
of pompous older men?
Don't try it. Only
Jesus could do it and he
probably didn't exist.
Try 'sympathy'. With that
your isolated self may
...