Three Poems by Kenneth Pobo

DINDI HAS BEEN IN

love is a

drip drip

drip of a late

night spigot

you’re too beat

to get up

and turn the handle

to stop it

you listen

fall back

to sleep

it must be

a dream

***

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

are bored so they watch an I Love Lucy rerun,

then walk up to the 7-11 for ice cream.

A leather-jacketed dude stands against

his jalopy, sees how flirty these five boys

and five girls are. He blams his engine,

takes off. The commandments shrug,

gossip and hope for good prom dates. But

they’re bratty. Ignored, they IM

and call each other, carry guns

they easily sneak through metal detectors.

***

IN 1966

Count Five sang “Psychotic Reaction”—

decades later I’m kicking snow

above coffins. I won’t grab

a grave, will be the ex-

ception, a shoe

God keeps looking for.

Kenneth Pobo won the 2009 Main Street Rag poetry chapbook contest for his manuscript called Trina and the Sky. His work appears online at Forpoetry.com, DeComp, Iddie, Loch Raven Review, and elsewhere. Look for his forthcoming Chap Book here.