Sex and Murder Magazine

By Dave McLean

putting your smelly, sweaty self in somebody else's shoes
is the ultimate degradation and rape,
except that you totally miss the goal
and feel nothing of them,

because you are a self-righteous arrogant asshole,
pretending hard to feel for them, and they are safe behind
maybe mistaken theories of epistemological privilege,
where they are invisible to us in their own lives,

their own necessarily lonely minds, secret holes
where all the devils in the world might live -
so i tend to leave them alone, the Other is heaven's
homework – i'm not particularly interested,

secret devils don't look for forgiveness