Sufficiency In Literature Poem by RIC BASTASA

manny pops out from somewhere
opens the door and begs that we listen
to him sing: i wanna live live live until i die
we obliged of course
just to help him ease himself from
too much
intellectual pressure
and even if we do not like the song
or because we cannot really relate to it
because we pride ourselves
as sane and
stable
we sing the song just the same
he is a toe
and when he is wounded
we are feeling
too the pain

indeed his body shook
like Vanuatu with an intensity 7 earthquake
we expect tsunamis later
but they did not come

and then manny is gone
went the U.S.A and true to his last word
just to be a nobody

and this
philosophically
has made him
happy.

i have to be honest
till now i never really like that song
or that i need to be shaken

i have these poem anyway
and perhaps if Manny reads it
somewhere
i guess i have to tell him
i have enough.