Some Lizard Thoughts On Another Night When I’m Alone Poem by RIC BASTASA

the lizard licks its tail
in a playful mood remembering
the younger days of its
short life,

IT is playing with light
wishing that there will be fire on the ceiling

too eager to please itself
upon itself
which by the way is our way of defining
what narcissism is all
about,

the lizard bit its own tail and
eat it

not worrying though because it can grow
another tail
in the manner of
auto-regeneration
which we humans do not have
really the ability to do

i watch it closely
like the cover page of the poems
of Gratian

till now, i cannot really figure out
whether
envy has seeded its discord
inside my
heart

or i am just hungry myself
and wish i had a tail
for me to eat
for supper....