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  • The American Poetry Review

    THREE POEMS

    Nov 01, 2018 2 minutes
    PATRICK PHILLIPS

    Countrywide

    He threw the pale pink envelopes into the trash
    and smashed the Mickey Mouse phone hanging up.

    And when his wife asked you okay? he said okay,
    then took a twistoff to the back, screaming

    so loud he spooked theHe’d got canned for nothing, missed three payments,

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