For Arnel Poem by RIC BASTASA

This is what he wrote to me:
WEST COAST Blumpkin 'round the corner bright boy! !
and what's up with this naked lady showing off her boobs as you avatar? ?
wow! ur pretty bomb dude,
kinda wishin you are
brokeback mountain too? ? ?
lol
p.s that's my boyfriend CHAZ DIE...SEL - he's a mechanic! !


and then he wrote me again about his
sex life
his gay nights in Israel and how this country has
advanced well in the science
of pleasure,

and then i reminded him about
how he was under me in Logic
one summer
and he said perhaps he dropped the subject
because i was more of a smart ass
who carried something too heavy on my shoulder
and he did not like
that idea of having to see me
naked.

alright, he finally made the concluding remark,
that after so many years of
ponder
he said without a sigh that

he's gay.

is this a bomb dropped in the island of Bikini?
honestly, i don't think so
perhaps he did not know that we have also
advanced our views
about him
that we are not homophobes after all,
that when he dropped in class
after which he made the revelation that he had
more fun taking it at the University of California
(which i think, he lied on his teeth)
rather than suffer
the consequences of my presence
as he sees me
naked in his rather wild imagination
at 7 p.m.

how can i finish this thing off?
after all he is a smart ass too
underestimating our capacity to really
really appreciate his
human value.

Good luck and take care
be good, wherever you are.

Ponder, rotate, collide, vibrate
and do not forget
Life is beautiful. That's it