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My Final Facebook Post
Marjorie Power

A short enough statement to fit in large print
on one of their loud backgrounds:
I’m closing my account. Contact me at…

Emojis pop, weave past one another.
The face that cares, the face that weeps,
the original lifted blue thumb.

You’ve made a wise choice.
This, from a woman who used to gush
and spew exclamation marks.

I’ve enjoyed you here and will miss you a lot.
Confirming that I must be confused
as to where life lives.

Wise decision
from someone in France who as far as I know
never looked at my page.

Sending love. Be well.
The smallest sentences
she has ever sent me.

Only best wishes!
from the only
man so far.

My email doesn’t work. I hope we can stay in touch.
Wouldn’t she intend
to get this fixed.

Remember, you’ve got a friend
in San Diego. I’ve moved here.
We could explore. Come see me.

—
Marjorie Power’s newest full-length poetry collection is Sufficient Emptiness (Dearbrook Editions, 2021). A chapbook, Refuses to Suffocate, appeared from Blue Lyra Press in 2019. Atlanta Review, Barrow Street, Mudfish, Southern Poetry Review, DASH, The RavensPerch, and EPOCH have taken her work recently.

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