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Pieces
A collection of prose discarded in sorrow
Brother
He was brave in ways that did not make big legends, but drilled bad boys into good men. He was the one to remind us to say thank you, to step aside for our elders, and to return the things we stole. Heroism as a form of grace. He saved us from our future memories. He saved us from she same we’d assign to ourselves. Saved us from ever knowing the reach of our evils.
Love
Don’t go burying yourself into my skin. Like some secret. Instead. Lay your body on top of mine. Let’s love like layers of sediment. Love like the creation of mountains.
Civil
There is no civil without savage. Both extremes exist on a single line, the mirrored halves of a single body, for even the savage have ceremony and the civil brutal consequence.
It’s easier. If you just vibrate.
America
America is not it’s cities. Cities are everywhere from Manila to Nairobi. America is it’s open road, vast country stitching farmland to mountains, bayou to desert, canyon to delta, and tundra to rainforest—a silent tapestry from one coast to another. Miles of a mimic of the world. And yet, still, even as a citizen for as many years as I’ve breathed, beyond these city walls, I dare not think any of that mine.
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