on my birthday
I wait for your call
your voice records
my aging
every year the same
song I love you
I eat dinner with Tom & Jerry
still no ring
check the phone volume
all the way up
in three years
I haven’t aged
Gerard Duncan Jr. is from Walla Walla, WA and has lived in Prague and throughout the US. He earned a PhD from the University of Southern Mississippi and an MFA from Eastern Washington University. Gerard’s poems appear or are forthcoming in Deal Jam, Hot Pot, Mania Magazine, The Rome Review, and elsewhere.
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