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Brett Fletcher Lauer is the author of the memoir Fake Missed Connections: Divorce, Online Dating, and Other Failures (Soft Skull, 2016) and A Hotel in Belgium (Four Way Books, 2014). He is the deputy director of the Poetry Society of America and the poetry editor of A Public Space.
Poetry
or few, or less than
should be expected,
or a handful, or as much
as a normal living
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