Sunday, August 29, 2021

DOORS LOCKED by Kenneth Pobo

Jeff and his buddies
head to Bob’s Tap
after work.  They know Jeff
is married to Jerry.  They’re cool 
with it but sometimes….

Carl says, I’m trying remember
a song title from, I think, Cats, 
Jeff, you’d know it, 
you guys love show tunes.  Jeff,
more Led Zeppelin and Joan Jett,
orders another pitcher, talks about
the Brewers.  Closets, 

he thinks, get so deep 
that one leads to another, 
doors locked. 



Kenneth Pobo is the author of twenty-one chapbooks and nine full-length collections.  Recent books include Bend of Quiet (Blue Light Press), Loplop in a Red City (Circling Rivers), and Uneven Steven (Assure Press). Opening is forthcoming from Rectos Y Versos Editions. Lavender Fire, Lavender Rose is forthcoming from Brick/House Books.

 


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