Reverse Psychology (2) Poem by RIC BASTASA

last night
actually late last night
i was about to sleep
when this someone pops up
saying

'i'm depressed
got a broken heart
which cannot be
mended'

the masochist is
here again
and i tell him

'take the cure
how about suicide? '


'i am not
joking' his reply


'i am serious
take the cure
have a happy suicide
get a gun
and eat the bullet'


the following morning
we meet at the junction
of Camus

i think someone, if he
really means it,
has to go to the other side
of this earth

who knows? it is the place
called happiness.