All of Us on Google

Karen Schubert

One is a porn star, though I have not
seen her trailer. We also include
a taxpayer liaison in Texas, a Seattle
endocrinologist, an artist whose
wildflowers in Winter,
California, are on exhibit in Plein Air Works.
One wishes for Goth-Icky
for her March 8 birthday, one brokers houses
in Bourbonnais, one is dear wife
of a gentle and loving husband
now deceased – together they walked
their dog, Challah. I propose
a gathering of Karen Schuberts,
community support officer, lay
minister, blogger in New South Wales.
We will learn from each other how to
prevent diabetes, deliver a sermon,
pay fewer taxes, how to bend nude
to pick up red lace panties.
We will write poems, paint barns
and blue wildflower fields,
practice each other’s accents, cheer
the widow, make plans to meet again
but we won’t. We will marry and remarry,
change our names and careers,
the endocrinologist becomes
a bowling star known only as Bev,
the widow goes to Africa to buy art
and stays. The porn star keeps her name,
lives off royalties in Tallahassee
where only her mailman knows
to find her on Google.