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"Listening."

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His rage is from not killing
anyone at close range,

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not seeing the brain splatter.

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He says he was
trained to murder,

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but all he did was ride
the Humvee probability.

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And off the record, he
flipped grenades at villages

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by the side of the
road and laughed--

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bullet littered the
land and the vehicles

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passing by when
his was passing by.

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Sometimes he dragged
passengers out and mashed them,

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without touching the face.

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Sometimes when he walks
into a gas station,

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now that he's back,
they greet him--

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how are you brother?

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And he replies,
under his breath,

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I am not your
fucking brother, you

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gas station people are
only targets to me.

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His is a professional failure.

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I empathize.

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He works out, but it's in math
class that his thoughts wander.

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He imagines a trespasser--

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how he'd mutilate him and
hide the microscopic blood.

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He's tearful, hyperventilates.

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His mother's shoulder
is Siamese with his.

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Think of life, I say.

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He says, life is short.

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I say, short or
long, think of life.

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Then I go back to my desk
where there's a message for me

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to call my father.

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I call and he says, your
sister had penciled something

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down in Arabic a while
back, splotched now.

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I say, I don't want
to return to anyone.

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I don't want to
return to any country

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after this long absence.

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I want only to
return to my language

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in the distances of cooing.

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