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Last Chance At Romance

Jack Conway

I am not
one of those married men
who tries to pick up girls
in bars,
he assured her.
My last wife
is legally dead,
he said,
even if the police
can’t locate her body.
© 2002 Jack Conway. All rights reserved.
From Life Sentences | North Country Press, 2002
Originally published in The Columbia Review, Vol. 83, No1, Spring, 2002. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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