Tied Down Poem by RIC BASTASA

all the happy faces
tied up in a frame
from a click which
made you stick it out
in Badeling, China
where the Great Wall
appears
to be most beautiful

beside you was the
beautiful Canadian who
accidentally held your
hand
perhaps afraid that she
might fall down and
die


your wife was on the
left
preoccupied with what
to project with her
friend in that
not so famous town
in the Philippines

you doubt everything
since then
but to cut the story short
and to stop all
the ambivalence

you crop the picture
and you deleted
the one who is more
beautiful than her.