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      © 2016, Text by Justin Boening

      All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher: Milkweed Editions, 1011 Washington Avenue South, Suite 300, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415. (800) 520-6455

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      Published 2016 by Milkweed Editions

      Printed in the United States of America

      Cover design by Gretchen Achilles

      Cover illustration by Ekely / Getty Images

      Author photo by Devon Walker-Figueroa

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      FIRST EDITION

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Boening, Justin, author.

      Title: Not on the last day, but on the very last : poems / Justin Boening.

      Description: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2016.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016013643 (print) | LCCN 2016014063 (ebook) | ISBN 9781571314871 (paperback) | ISBN 9781571319517 (e-book)

      Subjects: | BISAC: POETRY / American / General.

      Classification: LCC PS3602.O42274 A6 2016 (print) | LCC PS3602.O42274 (ebook) | DDC 811/.6--dc23

      LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016013643

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      CONTENTS

        Title Page

        Copyright

       ONE

      1  When I Cannot Sleep—Day Six—a Letter

      2  To Be a God

      3  My Mother Takes the Stand

      4  On the Mysterious Disappearance of Fortunetellers

      5  Self-Portrait in Which I Resemble the Man next to Me

      6  Nobody

      7  The Jukebox That Ended the World Twice

      8  Proxy Baptism

      9  The Opera Singer

       TWO

      1  The Banquet

      2  The Mistake

      3  Illness

      4  Idiom of the Entrepreneur

      5  Then After

      6  Election Day

      7  Two Surgeons

      8  The Diner

      9  Player Piano

      10  When the Buskers Leave Town for Good

      11  The Kind of Life I Always Wanted

      12  The Door

       THREE

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