A Great Man........ Poem by RIC BASTASA

you are a
great man.

sometimes
if you are
really true

you agree
that beyond
this greatness
is an extension
wire of madness

at some point
water from the sky
falls upon a leaking
roof of your
existence and what
happens as predicted
accurately by science
in between those
cut moments, a short

circuit occurs
putting a series of
sparks, a weird sound,
and someone who is
in touch, and those
that really take
pride about skin and
intimacy, find
themselves electrocuted
and burn and
die.

if you are a great
man, do not forget,
you will go mad,
you will go cold
you will die.

and then you
are forgotten.