Ferris Wheel Talks Poem by RIC BASTASA

to make him interesting
tell him that you are with your other
famous friends in the bar
drinking the best beer in town
and you are enjoying the talks of the
town

to include him, (and he would be too
curious what about him that you are all
talking about)
and you make stories, here and there
and everywhere
precisely to make him alive again

when in fact, you and your famous
friends
had been talking about religion,
philosophy, politics, and
girls, and
about this incessant Ferris wheels
of war and peace.