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Didn’t save

first time for marriage,
but for love.

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And with a guy
because he cruised me
at the student union.

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Craig Cotter was born in 1960 in New York and has lived in California since 1986. His poems have appeared in hundreds of journals in the U.S., France, Italy, the Czech Republic, the U.K., Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, Canada, India, and Ireland. Books include The Aroma of Toast, Chopstix, Numbers, and After Lunch with Frank O’Hara.

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