It Is Alright... Poem by RIC BASTASA

a long lost friend finally finds you
in facebook as you use your real name now
and he will start with the usual felicitations

how are you? what happened for all those years?
have you married? how many kids? who did you marry?
from where? what do you do for a living now?
and what happened to Patricia, your high school girl?
and so on and so forth and he will take time
to reminisce those good funny times that make
you so alive

you are happy now and there he takes his
ambush: can i borrow money from you?
my wife is suffering from cancer, my daughter is sick,
my business failed, and i have nowhere to go
blah blah and you know very well that since high school
he had always been a congenital liar

and so, what do you do?
hmm, why not send a little,
kind felicitation.