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Spring 1991 • Vol. XIII No. 2 • Poetry |

And These Are Just a Few…

This poem is for the epidemic dead and the living. Remember them?
Your neighbors, your siblings, your daughters and your sons.

This poem is for Robert, remember Bob? He told me my lover’s name
Before we had even met. Then he went dancing alone until daybreak.

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