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  • The American Poetry Review

    FIVE POEMS

    Jul 01, 2022 3 minutes
    MARY JO BANG

    The Key

    You have to go back to being immature,
    a timed regression essential
    to running up a further lifetime of debt.

    I owe you, the polar bear says,
    an icy French OUI. A kiss on both cheeks,
    plus a wish to sit on a bench

    at the center of a green-painted park,your legs planted. The unique sensoryeffect of the mind holding onto itself

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