Howie Good
The Trolley Problem
Three kids are playing on the trolley tracks,
oblivious to the trolley bearing down on them.
You can save the kids, but only by pushing
a really, really fat man with a job and a family
in front of the trolley to divert it from its path.
The surprised look in his eyes is like the cry of a bird.
You will understand when I show you.
Howie Good is a professor emeritus at SUNY New Paltz whose newest poetry book, The Dark, is available from Sacred Parasite, which will also publish his forthcoming book, Akimbo, in 2025.