Something So Ordinary Can Be Poetic Poem by RIC BASTASA

Something like
NO PARKING
Is poetic to me
You are a soul
Lost to this
Town of indifference
And you have
Been roaming
Around in your
Old car of a
Soul and you
Want to rest
And think
And what they
Say is

NO PARKING

That is actually
Poetic

Or shall we say

THIS WAY TO THE RESTROOM

Oh that is really
Poetic signifying
Relief that in this country
There still exists A WAY TO

A way a path a footpath
for someone lost
someone wanting to empty
Himself like a heavy cloud
Wanting to empty
Its accumulating heaviness
Like your urinary bladder
Looking for a restroom and
Oh heavens
This is the way to the rest room
This is the way to the heavens
Where I can just
Have the freedom of pursuing my happiness
Of a simple poetic pee
So this way to the rest room
Is a feeling of relief

It is a feeling of relief and poetry is just like that
You look for a way to unburden yourself
A way to this and that of relieving your
Urinary bladder your poetic urinary bladder
Discharging a discomfort
A heaviness of unwanted liquids
Which you have accumulated
In time

And you hold your thing in the manner that you
Want it held and in the process that you want it done
Without anybody looking

Without anybody saying you this is the proper way to pee
And no other else that can make your pee wholesome
To prescribed rules

And you point it to the big basin of a bowl
You pee
You have just discharged a discomfort
With all the images of

THIS WAY PLEASE TO THE COMFORT ROOM

To your comfort zone
Because you have been in such a discomforting fit
In complete release
You feel relief
And that to me is very poetic

THIS WAY TO THE COMFORT ROOM PLEASE

when all you want in life is to pee
On that instance
that moment is the best poetry
To the lines and verses of a person

simply peeing.