{"id":8222,"date":"2020-04-30T10:12:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T16:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8222"},"modified":"2020-04-30T10:12:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T16:12:10","slug":"do-sacrifices-dream-of-empathy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8222","title":{"rendered":"Do Sacrifices Dream of Empathy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

AR Dugan<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Time and tide he thought. The cycle of life. <\/em>
\nEnding in this, the last twilight.<\/em>
\nBefore the silence of death. <\/em>
\nHe perceived in this a micro-universe, complete. <\/em><\/p>\n

— Philip K. Dick<\/p>\n

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I want more life, fucker.<\/em><\/p>\n

— the android Roy Batty in Blade Runner <\/em>(1982)<\/p>\n

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Ask: When did the word please \/ become our weakness?<\/em> \/ Say: In every declaration I see sacrifice<\/em>. \/ Ask: On how many altars must I open?<\/em> \/ Say: I need the response to my call — \/ I love you. \/ <\/em>Ask: Is the lie you told me empathy?<\/em> \/ Say: Take two in the morning for your trouble<\/em>. \/ Ask: Where\u2019s the floating red cross that fills my vessel?<\/em> \/ Say: Life is like a cell \/ phone battery — a little less each charge.<\/em> \/ Ask: When I feel the weight of it all,<\/em> \/ will you find the brim and overflow me?<\/em> Say: My fullness is yours now. \/ Call me Capacity.<\/em> \/ Ask: Why does every offering find us here<\/em>? \/ Say: The light that burns twice as bright, \/ burns half as long<\/em>. \/ Ask: Do tears count? Do thoughts?<\/em> \/ Say: Speak my name like a good machine. Join me.<\/em> \/ Ask: When is the expiration date? \/ How much time?<\/em> \/ Say: The knowing another loss \/ itself.<\/em> Ask: In the end,<\/em> \/ will your depletion be enough to bring me back?<\/em><\/p>\n

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AR DUGAN<\/strong> is the author of the chapbook Call \/ Response<\/em> (Finishing Line Press, 2019) and has an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. His poetry can be seen or is forthcoming in a number of literary magazines and reviews, recently in Barrow Street<\/em>. He has read poetry for Ploughshares <\/em>and taught literature and writing at Emerson College and Wheaton College. He lives and works in Boston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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