STAND ON THE BOX

STAND ON THE BOX

Ricardo Antonio Garcia

If I proselytize or stand on my soapbox

being a mere reflection of an Open Air poet

Aristotle,

would you change the beat of heart?

Our affections transgress

conspiring to win the beauteous woman

marry,

and be forever forgotten.

Does the egotistical drive of a man

fornicate with his intentions and adversity

selling himself on the Worlds box?

To be digested by another’s form of force

is not a dire consequence

for friends of the rule will measure and twain

creating a body of colleagues.

If I proselytize to tell my veining interpretations

it is knowledge at work

and to become admitted into the chambers

of strangers by way of the Soul

should not distemper the elitist whisperings.

Shall we all be amused by the tales

or by the honest assumptions of a road traveled

whose heresies will champion the truth?

Novels are too long

for what can be said in condor

justifies the time spent

and the obnoxious fumes of the long wind.

To be great to another

must come from the verb and smithing of Words

Like child, like man- stand on the box

for leaders are born.

Whose heresies shall you prescribe … ?

… the obnoxious plant?