what is compassion
that offers no compensation?
the importunity for the lost—
or the last—fortuities
designated signals
epistemic epithets
delayed intelligibility
unorthodox electroshocks
a tectonic tonic
flotsamsara
impersonal peril
competitive performance
opportunism au naturel
insidious incivility
our optional obligations
more elaborate disguises
moral anesthesia
speculative poetics
immediately a New World
needs a Newer World