All Insignificance Frees You From The Anxiety Of A Lifetime. Poem by RIC BASTASA

one thing with what we do now
is that

anything goes, everything is fine,
everybody is welcome
and everywhere is just the best
for this
whatever occassion

this is an attempt to get away from
the house of logic
that pile of cards
this domino arrangement

have you seen a fish flying in space?
stars having a concert in the hills

singing mermaids in the pool
multi-faced man on stage talking in
a thousand languages
have you heard about this?

what is fine with me is when i
am everything, i am everywhere and
i am everybody

it is dreamy, but not dreary,
not well lighted, but colorful indeed
every smell is here, and every warmth
which triggers whatever is hidden in the
heart to come out into the open


like those hermit crabs getting out from
their borrowed shells to bask under the sun
when every bather is away making love with
their chosen fantasies

you will not understand if you are shackled
by the fetters of what is logical and systematic

lose yourself like a balloon in the sky
no one sees you bursting
at the threshold of your buoyant life

shattered and fallen
all insignificance frees you from the anxiety
of a lifetime.