No One.......... Poem by RIC BASTASA

no one saves money
for a sickness

as no one marries
to prepare for
divorce

no one build a house
for your arson
dreams

no one raises a son
for a black sheep of
the family

no one sows the seeds
for some discord
or havoc

and so on and so
forth
all these calamities

all these shortness of
expectations

these disappointments
over deaths
and debts and
vices and
violent things


but these simply
happen.
yes all these happen
and the sooner
you accept them
the better.