SKIP SAYS TERRIBLE THINGS
about Raylene, making her out
to be vain, petty, and lazy.
I’m his best friend, Zell, or
At least he still has me
To hang with. When I got married,
he didn’t like that I had
hitched a guy, said I’d be sorry.
I’d see—marriage
was like Home Depot. All
these things that you think
you want but get them home
and they break. When Raylene
got pneumonia and almost died, Skip
looked like someone walking
on hot coals… If she dies… if she dies…
he said again and again. She
pulled through. Happy until
complaints piled up
like uncollected mail. Jokes
at her expense repeated,
a record
with a terrible skip.
Kenneth Pobo had a book of poems out last year from Circling Rivers called Loplop in a Red City. Forthcoming is a book of his prose poems from Clare Songbirds Press called The Antlantis Hit Parade. His Twitter is @KenPobo.
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