A Beautiful Body Will Have A Hard Time Convincing You That It Is Suffering Poem by RIC BASTASA

a handsome face can tell a thousand lies.

because when it starts to tell the truth
you will not believe it.

a beautiful body will have a hard time
convincing you that it is suffering

a good career will find it hard to tell you that it wants to quit.

a fortune cannot brag that it does not enjoy spending.

so many more. someone cries and yet still hides
in the luxury house of its privacy.

safe house, well fenced, the screams inside cannot be heard.
a palace where fools live. a yacht where only rats enjoy.

a poetry stripped of the beauty of its sound.

a short story that keeps you away from a happy ending.

a hero turning out to be a fraud. a picture that is mute and deaf.

words that do not live in dictionaries anymore.

a dog with feathers. a bird with walls.

a word of water and no land at all no rock to hold into a magnetism.

a universe deprived of planets. a starless and sunless armory of horizons.

you soon learn this trick. a grope for meaning and reason

where there is none.