Cactus
By Tita Lacambra-Ayala
Excuse the cactus
thirsting on the sill
excuse it's quills
stuck out :
they're only an attempt
at self-defense.
See how it bleeds
to fossils the old sand
itself looking to be such
a fussy fossil
.Not quite futile.
It should require
some sort of guile
some genius
to subsist on sun
some lake of sand
(have both for free!)
and come out looking
freshly green,
(juicy even)
as if in spite of
as if in fun.
The poet says that it should have some way to entice others to water it or some way of living on just the sun so that it needed no water at all, and in the process appear fuller, fresher, plumper, juicier, as if to spite the poet for not giving it water, and as if it were actually having fun in the process.
TumugonBurahin