A New Haircut Poem by RIC BASTASA

all i need today is a new haircut
my thick hair is covering my head
and i do not really like it

like a carabao dung

it is giving me a certain feeling of a hat
a buri hat with lots of protruding fibers
untrimmed

what do i need a hat for?
when there is no rain
when there is no sun
when there is no
heavy debris falling on me

i just wanna be free
i want my brain open
washed by the rain
bleached by the sun
true to its nature
& form

thinking
w/o
any covering

without the bias
without the prejudice
of
scalp
of
hair

plain brain
exposed to all the elements

it will tolerate a certain form
of fungal infection

a certain
brain longing to be

brain dead.