The Problem With You Poem by RIC BASTASA

is that
you are too normal for a man,
what normal is, i define it
you are too formal
like a chair
there are other chair possibilities you have not tried
for instance
having only one foot
and still be proud to stand as a chair
on a chain of possibilities
the problem with you is you rhyme like their poem
and you become just like them
a factory made word
another boring mechanism
like a wooden panel without beauty
without the

aha! or
what is this? is this man? is this a chair?
is this a poem?

try something else
wobbling, whirling

a tornado, you haven't been one yet
a storm, an eye
a vacuum, an eclipse
a waste basket, a moon let
a planet, a sunrise without light?

do not just be stanza
be a word misspelled

be an error uncorrected
be a dog with feathers
a pink niche, a broken pen
an expelled meteor


a fallen angel.