A Confusing Story Poem by RIC BASTASA

forgetting you makes her
think of jumping out
of the window from
the 10th floor,

she is
so depressed like a
house blown by a tornado,
she thinks she is dying
she can be like her friend
one time
when finally she jumped
out and killed herself in
an instant like a water
melon crushed on the
pavement of the road.

there are 13 women who
died on this county in the
name of men, love, hate,
despair, denial, ambiguities,

she can't be the 14th
of this story,

enough of
these! she like to have a happy
ending,

wait, she is trying to find
an exit

the exit of yes,

and 'they live happily ever
after'

yes. yes. yes.

that is what forgetting
means, she finally lives
happily ever after, and
the man is free and the
other woman dies of
grief.

The man is killed
in her story.

she betrays him too
the author, and even
God.