What’s one word you’d use to describe your brother?

the medical examiner called him unviewable

because he’d used a shotgun instead of something kinder, something less greedy

 

now each day is a knot on the rope I’m expected to climb

out of grief, out of the not-normal, out of the extraordinary

weight of hours [waiting for what?]

there’s no way out,

 

nowhere to go but up, everyone urging me up, up

until I’m riding on time’s bullet,

the years clattering down—

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