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The third of these prose
poems is called The Brothers.

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Three of us left our
names, the rumors

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that circulate inside
our heads, it knows them.

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As children we were
told many times

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raised letters, the square
instant of metal mine.

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I lean forward,
wanting to be sure

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but a new name's there in its
place and another, another,

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another before I can read them.

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Quick as bullets, the
world behind glass,

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the monies underneath, the
hole rectangular box fall.

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They're removing it,
someone has the key.

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They're removing
it, the crisp bills

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snapping each one the way fresh
laundry snaps in the wind.

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It's inside me now, the wind.

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This far up I have
trouble seeing everything.

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The rambling house with
its servants' quarters,

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flowers and all the downstairs
rooms, and the tennis courts.

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The boy with blond
hair selling lemonade

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to the players
who have come down

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the small green slope
in wet sneakers, spent

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wiping their faces on the
bright towels, the grassy knoll

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where the shots came
from one for each of us,

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just a blur smaller
all the time.

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