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This poem uses statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Samantha Duncan is the author of four poetry chapbooks, including Playing One on TV (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2018) and The Birth Creatures (Agape Editions, 2016), and her work has recently appeared in BOAAT, decomP, Kissing Dynamite, Meridian, and The Pinch. She is an assistant editor for Borderlands: Texas Poetry Journal and lives in Houston.