Wanting to Make a Difference

Something we can do that makes a solid
difference to others:
not a hollow

aspiration to follow—
hope that all us boys are brothers
(pragmatically at least, a solid

possibility) and all sisters sisters (including some of the brothers).
Not forgetting the fathers and the mothers,
who died, maybe leaving a hollow

sepulchre behind but not before they had their salad
days: I’d rather be dead right now than think mine're over,
even though my mojo might not be as solid

as it was back when I attended college,
and I couldn’t be bothered
to come out of my hollow

hole and talk to other people.
I’m amazed in my old age to be lying in such clover!
the universe doing me a solid—
only my head is hollow.