I Always Remember That Movie Poem by RIC BASTASA

it was about the story of a murder
of a man by a very ordinary, naive, uneducated woman
scorned, she loved him with all her life until she noticed
that slowly she was betrayed by him
leaving her all too empty
and starkly naked
against the
world,
and so she murdered him and buried him under
the champaca tree which roots ate everything
of him
that gave it the white bloom
the perfumed scent of love spreading in the air
on her lonely nights

she is never caught and the people are happy that he is gone away
never to be seen never to be heard again