Inanimate Questions, If You Only Knew Poem by RIC BASTASA

1. the law professor had a stroke
2. and he is hospitalized for weeks
3. you are the dean
4. and you tell me
5. he is sick
6. and you ask

When can he submit his grades?

1. you bought a new motorcycle
2. and your son used it
3. for a ride
4. and he met an accident
5. and you phoned
6. from your office
7. and you ask

How is the motorcycle?

Inanimate questions are those directed to solicit
Answers concerning inanimate things

They focus on things
Forgetting about life

You should have asked: how is he? Is he well? Did he recover?
You should have asked: how is my son? Did he suffer any injury?

We humans sometimes do not know how to ask the animate questions,
And this lapse must be immediately corrected and repaired like lesions