October 2016
Kenneth Pobo
kgpobo@widener.edu
kgpobo@widener.edu
My work recently has been accepted by: Nude Bruce, Razorhouse Magazine, Ginosko Literary Journal, Comstock Review, and Glass: A Journal of Poetry. Find me in my garden looking for Bette Davis. Catch my Internet radio show, Obscure Oldies, on Saturdays from
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Coasting
Of Margie, her peevish English teacher,
Mr. Garson, says “She’s been coasting
since freshman year. She used to be good
but now….” Margie gets out of her seat
at 10:15 just when Mr. Garson
lectures seniors on why they’ll be failures
if they misunderstand Hesse. She coasts
out of the room, though her body remains seated.
She seeps through walls, down the hall,
and out the door, pollen
floating great distances.
Greenland knows her. Madagascar too. The sea
fits in her soul. She listens for water’s
steady pulse. By 3:00
she’s fully back in school, at her locker,
laughing with Almira and Warren. Almira wants to be
a new Joan Jett. Warren wants to run a porn shop.
Margie wants to coast. Right into the arms
of Herman Hesse or Martha Washington.
They coast too. Being dead,
it comes easily to them.
©2016 Kenneth Pobo
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