update from sparkleup

writing/poetry/misc.md

@@ -454,3 +454,40 @@ Should we forget the names of the dead?
 Should we forget the wheat, the rye, the tree?
 Perhaps this, too, is meaningless.
 '''
+
+-----
+
+## A serif guides the eye
+
+'''
+A serif guides the eye
+to an arrow in my heart.
+It is, at some level, important
+that you see such a thing,
+
+and by seeing: believe ---
+and by believing: understand ---
+and by understanding: feel ---
+and by feeling: communicate.
+
+With the words inscribed
+along each of my ribs,
+a serif guides the eye 
+to an arrow in my heart.
+'''
+
+-----
+
+## Secondhand embarrassment
+
+'''
+At what point
+    does embarrassment
+        become secondhand?
+Do I pass it off
+    to you by hand
+        when I cringe?
+Do I take it back
+    from you by force
+        when I laugh?
+'''