Insignificant Links... Poem by RIC BASTASA

as we were talking
he arrived at the connection between the shoes
and poverty
and i was wondering what is the link of
that shoelace to
lack of meaning
we became silent until a man without shoes
came running
without reason for he lost his mind
when by his anger he murdered
his friend who borrowed his pair of shoes
and not returning
them

it is the experience that links us
to something that we think was insignificant at first

for instance he begins today with another
bewilderment
that piece of string and that
prison.