Braggart Poem by RIC BASTASA

someday i will be poor.
it will happen, someday i will be very poor.
and you will be rich, and happy and proud
and influential and famous
and be in the cover of Forbes Magazine
perhaps Times
for your exemplary charity
or Asia week for your nobility
and humanitarian projects
perhaps the Pope will make you Saint Marjorie


someday i will be poor, in fact, poor as the poorest rat,
but i know
i will still, and cannot still love you real.