the wordplay is **** serious,
fools curse us, attacking empathy
for its sensuous to their BS pretensions,
their hypertension sophistry compounds their
selling them selves as a holy sphere,
begging for attention and the approval
appetizers of meaningless internet
bacchanal celebrating
I invite you in,
where depths surface
asking you to scratch deeper
than the shallows of egoism shoals
long labored to persaude with caution,
careful disclaimers, when you enter
our first encounter, that first most
dangerous embrace, asking you
to tag along inside insights
my intent plain, secrets
displayed with increasing
the leveling tween twice
an armful of hugs
this criticism disturbs my calm,
and so I repeat twice:
grant us the write to share, in our humanity
**grant us the write to share, in our humanity
2/23/25