Want Poem by RIC BASTASA

he wants
or at least wishes
that everyone in the family
be intelligent,
but he knows, of course, this is
not possible at all,
some come out as morons
others turn out later to
be nincompoops,

some though with the way
they speak and write
spelling the words
correctly and
choosing the right words
under the proper
context with which they
are said
and meant, ...become
too promising
to appease what he calls
as bad karma to
the family,

they later give their
true colors,
yes, intelligent but
very corrupt,

at the end he leaves
everything to God,
asking though,

it this really what
it has to be?
a family of wrong
people
and hence somewhere
along the line
one must settle for
compromises

or just leave genetics
as is
and let evolution do
the selection
of who in the family
becomes fit
to survive

well that 's it
i get away from my
wishes
i simply watch the family
go by
like a story without an
expected ending.