Fizzle Poem by RIC BASTASA

eat a certain funny idea
digest
and soon you fizzle out
and fart

i am trying to
break the wind
tonight

wind without noise
between us
poet
to poetess

we shall hiss,
as does
a piece of fireworks

unambitious rockets
we too fizzle
doggedly
downward

we rise again
with modest reluctance,
we hesitate often,
we decline finally;
generally,
to misunderstand the questions
some more
among us
thrown

we fail
we soon than sooner
die out

if we allow it......