Cut With the Cake Knife, by Kenneth Pobo

Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, by Hannah Hoch (Germany) 1919

Cut with the Cake Knife
 
Everything is always falling
apart.  I bake a three-layer cake,
chocolate frosting, and when I cut it,
a leopard attacks me.
 
Last night my husband and I 
decided to get romantic
instead of watching a rerun
of The Beverly Hillbillies. When
we kissed, the living room 
became a tilt-a-whirl.  Love 
can make us dizzy.  
 
My friend Carnal says
she climbed a pine, got
struck by lightning, and now
can read the minds of morning
glories.  I may try to bake
 
a new cake.  I’ll be careful,
but careful gets distracted.
I’d like everything to turn out
well.  Who doesn’t?  Next time
the leopard may snuffle and rub
up against my leg.

Kenneth Pobo

Read Kenneth's poem after Remedios Varo here.

Kenneth Pobo 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), Dindi Expecting Snow (Duck Lake Books), Wingbuds (cyberwit.net), and Uneven Steven (Assure Press). Opening is forthcoming from Rectos Y Versos Editions. For the past thirty-plus years he taught at Widener University and retired in 2020.