The Amor Secos...... Poem by RIC BASTASA

the amor
secos are the dry kind
of grass
which stick to you
when you touch it
and pass by

at one glance they
are insignificant

grasses are meant to
be removed from the
garden and
be taken as trash

somehow if you look
closely as i have done
recently
sleeping on the grass
beside them
they are not that
ugly at
all

they are nice to
look at and when i stand
and leave
some have already
taken a patch of my
pants

they must be lonely.
i guess.

on the other hand if
they could talk, would they
have not said
that they just want to
comfort you
because you are lonely too?