"with me , his presumed confidante , he called himself wheatyard or sometimes el . then again , it was n't me he had a crush on . '' that night i read the poem several times through before i finally understood it , but even then i had no idea what message elmer was trying to give me . next day at work , he came in again and asked what i thought of the _ ..." What is the word in the blank space (_)? The answer is
poem