She Whipped The Little Naughty Boy.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

because mother did not take him
to the funeral
he took his own unique revenge
uprooting all the blooming African daisies
in her garden
and taking everything to the road where the big
truck runs them all down over

when mother saw it she wept.

she whipped him so hard that he almost fainted.
and both of them could never forget each other.

the map to forgiveness was lost.
and love is an island hidden by a giant fog.
the only boat available had lots of holes.
the childless boatman died.