"Exile."
"It happened inside a single room for me.
Forgive me if you feel with this assertion,
I diminish you or the integrity of your story.
But it's true.
I was nowhere there on the frayed brown carpet
between two beds, mine to the right,
my brother's to the left, counting the tiny holes
in the radiator cover, dark eyes piercing
through painted white metal.
When I looked around, I saw nothing
that I was, not even other nothings like me.
Do you think I take from you?
I do not take from you.
I am you."