...Solid...Smart....Make Money Poem by RIC BASTASA

there is also a gift
of being not interested

seldom it happens but
it happens

like when the sun rises
and someone stops to admire it

and you keep on walking
rushing for something more important

disregarding what is poetic
and looking forward to what gives you
something to survive: money

you know you cannot live by bread alone
they keep on hammering that to you

but here you are hungry and thirsty
for food and water and

looking for what satisfies your affection
and this gift of being uninterested

works for you, going back to that unpoetic
self, and those old friends of yours treat

you for a drink, here comes a friend telling
you, welcome back to reality...make money

away from psychological weaknesses and
personal whims, and anxieties, take back yourself

stone, pillar, no clouds, no rivers, rock,
soil, sand, scorpion, viper, venom,

the other more candid, says, be the man you are.
make money, support your family, solid, smart.