The Intervals Poem by RIC BASTASA

you laugh
at the intervals

at the spaces
between
seriousness and
craziness

between lucidity
and insanity

between the interstitial
satire
and the solidity of
desire

this if infinitesimal life
a burst of laughter
between the bangs of the hammer

you guess you made it
he lied
it is someone else
far beyond your imagination

far beyond your control
you look at it again
it looks like you
wearing that hair without
any shampoo