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Roanoke Review

Volume XLV

2020 Poetry Backpage

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April 30, 2020

My Wife Invites Her Ex-Boyfriend to Lunch

April 30, 2020/ Roanoke Review

She tells me Justin had good jokes,
good manners, was a card shark
and a militant Baptist. They broke up
because she always burst into giggles

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