Poetics 5.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

'DEEP IN MY heart
i love you' this is the first song of the morning radio

the patio smells urine
the covering of the chamber pot is left open
the old man saves his urine
for ten days

you imagine nothing
i can see the blank wall again
nothing red like a rose

then you laugh so hard
the glass falls off from the sink
breaks its mouth on the
marble floor

you have a canvass of manila paper
and a black crayon and then
you draw a man with twenty tongues
and a very big mouth like
manila bay

you put their the name of the man
who broke your heart
fifty times

tore your being apart like a broken
hymen of your first love

you must have remembered your first scream
of that pain
and then you finally come to the conclusion
about that regret
not having feasted upon that pain again
that crazy man
he never asked you again for a date in that
fungal hotel
nosy bellboys
broken locks of the door
and greasy floors