I Could Have Enjoyed A Very Nice Conversation Out There At The Mall Poem by RIC BASTASA

i can make choices
like i am thrown in an ocean of choices
everyday as i decide for myself
what to do really

i could have gone to the mall
shopping or just enjoying the walk there
seeing lots of people and meeting them
and knowing their names and
having fun with them

or get a date with someone else
have sex at the motel or have a ride
somewhere in the countryside where no one
knows me

i could have done all these but i am so foolish
for instead here i am writing this low key poetry
wanting to figure out what do i really want in my life

i can figure it out someday
and i will figure it out now as i have been doing
this thing everyday
every hour: i just love this stuff writing for nobody
(but you may read if you want
blogging for no one and surfing for more words
and idioms and looking for that part where i become
an idiot or the everyday moron on the screen
at You-tube or facebook or friendster)

well i guess, this is it:
just trying to be nobody but a writer like you.