Issue 4:
Time
Kenneth Pobo
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Twenty Years Later
six-year-old steve
plays dress-ups
with marcy who lives
two houses behind his
steve's mom says she
must put a stop to
this makes him go home
says boys don't play
dress-ups he goes
with her twenty years
later he remembers
fondly turning a sheet
into a formal unlike
flag football in gym
tortured and teased
boys must learn team
work they said he looks
at the suit he wears
to work too tight and
colorless he wears it
to please others who
wear it to please others
in his living room he
steps out of it stuffs
it in a silver bucket
douses it with charcoal
lighter fluid drops
a lit match on it dances
and dances hoots and
sings naked and off key
~Kenneth Pobo
This poem first appeared in No Exit.
His credits include: Crab Creek Review, Southern Ocean Review, 2River, Mudfish, Colorado Review, Orbis, and Indiana Review. His chapbook Final Stages, [Funky Dog Press] will be online soon. Email.
© 1995 by Kenneth Pobo. All Rights Reserved.
© 2000-2002 by Cayuse Press. All Rights Reserved.
This page updated April 23, 2002.