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Michael Montlack: Karen

August 25, 2017 by PBQ 2 Comments

What age, outfit, expression
will be there at the gate?
Not the last you: limbs
clenched, refusing
to release your essence.

And not
the anxious twenty-something
whose husband bolts post-diagnosis.

How about the high-schooler
with Mae West lips and a face
skinny girls envy, lip-lining
perfectly during a parallel park,
the not-yet-released U2 single
blaring from the cassette deck–
an intern perk at WLIR, where
producers insist That chick
with the bourbon voice
answer all listener calls.

Still taking requests?
That Karen, please.

Filed Under: Contributors 96, Issue 96, Poetry, Poetry 96 Tagged With: contributors 96, issue 96, Michael Montlack, Poetry, poetry 96

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  1. Douglas Treem says

    December 13, 2017 at 7:59 pm

    Had to
    Read that
    Twice.

    Reply
  2. KD says

    May 27, 2018 at 4:52 am

    Nice ending.

    Reply

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