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I had a cousin who disappeared
when I was quite young.

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It's titled "In Memoriam."

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"He stood with two
wheeler between us,

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cuffs, pin, bike clips to keep
from tearing on the pedal.

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I looked away in
the house we had

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sat seeking each other
with feeble light, words

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about the weather.

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We lit up ourselves
fixed in perpetuity.

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He rounded, easy to
start, hard to stop.

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I rough all over bogged
down in my rudeness.

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He talked as if it were
a plan to paradise.

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I sat stolidly like an egg
flattened on its bottom.

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He arose sensing the loneliness
made with one's private eyes.

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And I, conceding that,
stood up to say goodbye.

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With two wheeler
between us, he let

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me feel where I had failed
him, his brown eyes vacant.

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Death has given him
what he had sought,

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a perfect amiability with life,
all other friendships failing."