To Remove A Boredom Poem by RIC BASTASA

anxieties live in the hair
like the number of locks
the white particles in scalp

someone suggests that to remove them
one must try loving a goldfish

that you put in an aquarium
one that you can love and yet cannot love back

one that you speak with
and yet cannot answer back

it is a love in silence where
silence becomes a necessity

or to see an aggression
one need put too little food to so many fish

and see how they all display
actuation in the middle of their hunger

sometimes one feels it too
walking under the rain some people are looking

yet we cannot look back
somethings like what they tell us

and caress us
with all our hands tightly tied