Question 2 Poem by RIC BASTASA

i think i am Bukowski's
reincarnation.


if he hears this, shall it make him happy?

If he still hears

What if, granting that
there is no such thing as reincarnation,

what if he hears this and he is not drunk?

will this make him mad?

what if, in truth, he was never mad into drinking
and that poetry was really
what he hated it to be and yet it just happens that he has no choice
but to write

because there is no vent to
his
inner angst?

what if, i never really want to be anybody else?

because there is only me, and that i am not also a reincarnate of
anybody else?

that is the question.

i AM PRETTY

sure, I am not Bukowski.