Tag Archives: empathy

Fraiku: I wonder about

Posted on 2025-02-21 by Bartholomew Barker

Drivers who would rather blind oncoming traffic than dim their high beams

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They’ll Say They Didn’t Know

Posted on 2024-11-12 by Bartholomew Barker

I can imagine how it feels to cross a border for a better future and not do the paperwork to get pregnant and not want to have a baby to live in a body not carrying the right gender I … Continue reading →

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Poetectomy

Posted on 2024-05-21 by Bartholomew Barker

Tomorrow I’m having brain surgery. I asked them to cut out my empathy center with a sharp knife so I can live happy. And while I’m exposed, remove that bright red ganglia of outrage so I won’t be susceptible to … Continue reading →

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Patience

Posted on 2021-04-17 by Bartholomew Barker

For today’s prompt from Robert Lee Brewer’s Write Better Poetry blog, write a waiting poem. It could be about waiting tables, but it can also involve any interpretation of waiting. Waiting in line at the store or for a package … Continue reading →

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