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Mary Jo Bang

Mary Jo Bang was born in Waynesville, Missouri, on October 22, 1946. She grew up in Ferguson and attended McCluer High School; she received two undergraduate degrees and two graduate degrees: a BA and MA in sociology from

You Were You Are Elegy

by Mary Jo Bang (b. 1946)

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 Fragile like a child is fragile. 
 Destined not to be forever. 
 Destined to become other 
 To mother. Here I am 
 Sitting on a chair, thinking 
 About you. Thinking 
 About how it was 
 To talk to you. 
 How sometimes it was wonderful 

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