The Life Of Poets Poem by RIC BASTASA

the poet
finally lost his
job
the price of oil
went low
another one had
to quit his
post
the working conditions
have become
unbearable

ars poetica
what now?

spread your
wings
save them

fly higher
save us

another poet
dies in gruesome
murder
shot by the
bullets paid by
him
with this government

those who know
the ways of the
fox
still sing with the
Crown

black and white
meek and scheming
just like everyone
else

poems scatter.