about the pain of others
all I can do here
is reexamine our long standing
friendships
some of us who have
want for nothing
can only criticize fantasies
talk about the same films from
America's heyday
even that term, America
sits in the past
at my one on one we talked about
Home Alone 1 and 2
and I thought it to a point sadistic
the way Kevin toyed with his invaders
and I thought of him not
as a victim but as a maniac
written by those who sought pleasure
from pain and we call that now
a classic tale of Christmas comedy
