KENNETH POBO

Break-Up

He dumped me
near City Hall,
William Penn

seeing the whole thing.
He was perfect
as a book sold

at Barnes & Noble.
I was more of
a crumpled newspaper,

or so he said.
We were dead
in the rain water

pooling on the sidewalk.
Goodbye fell on us
like bird shit.  We

walked away,
him to Locust Street
and me to South Street

where I got a tattoo
and ate French fries
out of a cup.

Kenneth Pobo (he/him) 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 Lilac And Sawdust (Meadowlark Press) and Gold Bracelet in a Cave: Aunt Stokesia (Ethel Press). His work has appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, Asheville Literary Review, Nimrod, Mudfish, Hawaii Review, and elsewhere.