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Luc Simonic

Barbara Barber (1925 - 2000)

Oddly enough, my first
three husbands croaked

at five year intervals:
1945, 1950, 1955.

Several times during
1949 I slept with all

three on the same day.
It was very precarious,

and notable that on
the following day, I was

always insatiably forlorn.

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Oddly enough, my first
three husbands croaked

on barbiturates. They were
big time drinkers.

When the spasms stopped,
so did the heart.

They all knew each other
from a fraternity.

An eerily similar
crowd at each funeral.

Try to imagine them.
 

Luc Simonic is an American poet born (1973) in Colorado.