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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