Monday, March 24, 2025

Karl Koweski

retaliation

it was two weeks
after you returned
from rehab, dad
I found the first
vodka bottle,
a Smirnoff pint,
stashed beneath
the driver's seat
of your Ford.

I propped the
empty on the
dashboard like
a bobble-head.

I didn't tell you
this then, but...

going into my room
and leaving my
dog-eared copies
of Penthouse on
my pillow next
to the Vaseline...

that was a
pretty good comeback.

Karl Koweski is a displaced Region Day now living in a valley in rural Alabama. His latest collection of poetry from Roadside Press "Abandoned By All Things" is out now.

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