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    THREE POEMS

    Jul 01, 2018 3 minutes
    CATHERINE BARNETT

    Central Park

    I’d like to buy one when I die,
    one of the benches not yet spoken for,
    not yet tagged with a small stainless plaque

    and someone else’s name.
    If they’re all gone, please
    help me carry a replica

    to the boat pond so I can sit
    and watch the model boats get nowhere
    beautifully, rented by the fixed hours

    I’m grateful not to be out of yet.Another flicker ofan updated Triple-A membership,

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