Solipsis Ho.

Novel new devices for partnered pairs to
split open the head of the other
and so deeply study and analyze the emotional reactions
to the self-propelled perceptions
(thus what is said, thus what I say)
(and so to see what you think, how you feel in response).

And the outcome has the potential to horrify,
or merely gut the participants,
as they gaze into the black bottomless well
of general human indifference.

And ever again,
the rest of your years,
you would half-measure every future word
and cringe to know
how far it will miss
(as it will, as it must).