Rainbow Shirt
I sit in my rainbow shirt.
A stranger tells me
to burn it. The bumpy
bus craves the anonymous.
We’re nobody
to each other.
He looks at me like
he might puke.
Well, dude, go ahead.
The shirt can be washed.
The rainbow withstands
the storm.
- © Kenneth Pobo 2023
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, Cordite, Asheville Literary Review, Grain, Hawaii Review, and elsewhere.
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