The Gorko Gazette

Bob Haiku

Bob in Nice Dream

Fresh-faced sweet Bob from
sexy dream, promising to—
My alarm clock rings.

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Solution Too Late

Bob says, let’s get hitched,
move to France, go all Buddhist.
You died last year, I say.

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The Cat’s Meow

Past the good tables
Smiling in the cat café
Bob with a cold sore.

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Starbucks Discovery

Slurping espresso
Divorced Bob going nowhere
like hair lost in soup.

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How I Lost My Bob

They looked sweet, kissing
Near the gladiola tree
Bob and his friend, Bob.

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About the artist

Meg Pokrass‘ prose and poetry has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, New England Review, Wigleaf, Electric Literature, Five Points, Plume, RATTLE. She has published 10 books of fiction and prose poetry. Her newest full collection First Law of Holes: New and Selected Stories is from Dzanc Books. 

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