A Poem For A. M. Poem by RIC BASTASA

A Poem For A. M.



i know of a guy
who hates pictures
he does not own
a camera despite
his money

a fact that he lost most
of them
in anything
except pictures

by social conventions
as he is in this
circle
somehow he cannot escape
pictures taken

but he would see to it
that his body is covered
his face behind
the rest of the other
happy faces because

no matter how he
tries to expand the size
of his smile
his sadness still invades his
eyes like
a skin disease
without cure

i tell him once about this
noticeable phenomenon
and he breaks into tears
like a mad woman
put inside bars

there is this fear
this certain sadness that
stays within

somehow we are able to hide it
as strangers knowing how to conceal their names
on ships which are about
to face the storm

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