COMPASSION
Pity the pig who has
never seen light
Pity the food that she eats
Pity the Christians, Buddhists and Jews
and the people and dogs that they've beaten
and killed in secret and in the streets
Pity the dolphins in tuna-nets
Pity the tuna, too,
and the 93 million new babies a year
and the pitiless, affluent
few.
MAN IN A SHOWER
his only reality
the removal of reality.