Off The Record As Amended To Be Removed Upon Request Later Poem by RIC BASTASA

me too
i do not know who Adria Moya is
or was
or be, as she claims to be

she says she is alive
(how sweet)


but she is not liking my liking her
at 67
and me at 76,

(oops my nose is stretching)

it is not that bad
i can still manage


i am a
Doctor of Loss


it may be unethical to ask a Lady
her age
but i think
i need to know her real name, if she obliges

and from what university did she earn
her
Ph.D. in Stalkery?

I had mine at the University of Loss Vegos.


(ha ha ha, just a joke for the night in your place, Adria
it is noontime in mine)