Who left Barefootin’ 

by T.V. & The Tribesmen  

in Maybelle’s Laundromat, 

on top of Good Housekeeping?   

The album has escaped its cover, 

music floating over Maybelle’s roof, 

maybe caught on some clothesline.  

Someone spilled a small puddle 

of grape jelly under 

a silhouetted go go dancer.  

I don’t go go much now except 

to the big front loader where 

my quilt bathes in Tide.   

What happened to T.V.?  

They may be dead by now.  

Death is always 

on the go go.  

My dryer has stopped.  I open it 

and pull out almost-hot clothes.  

Dusk stares through the window, 

her coral hat ready 

to fall off her head.

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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), 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.