The Places And The Topics Discussed Poem by RIC BASTASA

most of the time
they talk about the coming of death

medicine as a highlight fades
like dusk to morning

the matter of evidence has become
rays of morning light

the series of travels from nepal to calcuta
to kuala
are not exactly the denials that most of them
thought

and when the talk has become one routine
like a train from pedro gil to edsa
it becomes another uninteresting view
at the Luneta

well it ends like everyone else
Life is like that and will always be an imitation

when death comes
one holds his cigarette puffs a smoke into the air
and then puts a stop to a stare