By Galadrial
Date: 2002 May 17
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Empathy

Dear Heart,
if you must PROJECT,
the local theater is looking for one.
But my heart is not a sheet
looking for super 8.
So repeat after me,
when a woman shows you polite attention,
and sympathizes with your lot,
you can assume she is nice.
PERIOD.
Not that she is eying you
like a lush steaming meal,
saliva and drool pooling in her mouth,
not that she is doing the Salome thing.
If and when I decide that I want someone,
I know how to let them know.
And subtle I ain't.
Just hit Websters
and look up "empathy",
because one of us got it WRONG.