The Insensitive Beast Poem by RIC BASTASA

it should have been better
if he did not say it
he knows it somehow from the tip
to bottom
he's gonna hurt someone
with all the clear intentions
and that is
bad.

everyone knows that it is bad.
the man has sacrificed a lot to embrace it
hides, dives, and holds his breath
just to please the
sightseers
and then after all these years this man
mimics a monkey and says
that he is of inferior quality
funny and
cannot be considered seriously

tremendously unfair
silence is always golden
dignified.