She Says Hello... Poem by RIC BASTASA

long gone
she settled in Israel
married a man
and left his man here
saying
he never had an
ambition while she
wanders around the
world shopping for
her future.

she is sick now
and suffering and she
asks about the man
she left here

and the man is flattered
saying he had long cursed
her to suffer

she is dying and all she
wanted is nothing
she does not love him
and all she wants
before her death is
just that he signs
the divorce papers
so when the time comes
for her to go somewhere
at least she can say
that she is single and
happier
without him.