Status Quo Poem by RIC BASTASA

350 days he studies it
and arrives at a conclusion
that it should be that

(what motive is there? what weather
has changed? the prosecutor is asking)

in 35 days after the careful scrutiny as it is named
there is a change of his mind
it should not be that, the bird caught in the net must
be set free

and so the broken winged bird was freed
no way it can fly
a bone had been permanently broken
and the cage
has been a nice home to it

i am left with this emptiness
a space between bench and door
between a you and I,

I will be writing a short sentence to all these
chaos.

i shall leave things as they are.