...The Controversial Sermon Of The Parish Priest In The Sleepy Town. Poem by RIC BASTASA

lazy juan who waited
for the ripe guava to
fall on his mouth lays
asleep under the tree

while sleeping a naughty
boy, son of his hardworking
neighbor stealthily grabbed
the ripe guava from that
dwarfish tree and ran away

out of extreme depression
juan died while the child
bragged about what he did
to the other children of
the sleepy neighborhood.

that following morning
the parish priest delivered
his controversial sermon.