Towards A Decent War..... Poem by RIC BASTASA

at first
when you first saw it
you were
electrified
your bones rattle
your veins expanded
blood rushed like people
on a black friday sale

then after a while
when boredom strikes
you only watch it once in a while
only when you remember
but not that you seek for it
and really find it

then just like the rest of
the men in town
normal as you despite the illusion
you do not like even to watch it
even if encouraged
to make you alive

then it is over
you detest it
realizing that it has
humiliated you
ever since and
without end

and you think that you are
elevated
from man to demi-god to god
but of what?

you tap your head
it is giving you the sound of
an empty can

or just another drum
wanting to sound like a march
towards a decent war....