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Cate Lycurgus’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Tin House, Orion, and elsewhere. Recently selected for Best New Poets 2019, she has also received scholarships from Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences and was named one of Narrative’s 30 Under 30 Featured Writers.
I decided to buy a banana.
It seemed like a good idea.
At the café, a banana.
A good idea, it seemed, so I couldn’t resist.
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