Implications Poem by RIC BASTASA

such is the meaning
of a rainbow, that when there is rain
and when it stops
and the sun begins to shine
a promise is made, that there will be no more
deluge,

that when the road gets wet
by logical implication
there must have been
rain,

and with too much rain in the forest
you know what happens next
the river shall rise
and bring the flood following
the law that nature
gives us
without any telling,

you do not have to tell me
about the implication
about a bag full of clothes
about a closed account
about a ticket for one only in America.

i know you, and you too know me.
that poem
in that junction, where Oedipus meets
the King.