So What Do You Expect From The Title? Poem by RIC BASTASA

the poet writes the title
first,
he is the messy kind
that writes
whatever comes first
even though
literally each word
seems not to be significant
to the next one

practically like strangers
coming together
inside a train
whose common ground
is only to go somewhere
else

nothing like
care, or affection
they merely stand there
and wait
and then take their
respective
exits

he writes: so what do you expect from life?
changing it later:

so what do you expect
from the
title? trying to conceal the essence
of his question

and then he keeps on writing
like a lost kid
looking for its mother
who seems to be very busy
with her own
kind of obsessive
compulsive shopping
and then you arrive at the
end line which says: hey why are you stalking me?

changes it later to
something courteous: do i know you?
are you following me?

do you like me? funny, but
sometimes it is true