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September 4, 1992

You are twenty-seven no dreams to live for no special woman to warm your bones on cold Minnesota nights no children to fret about no one with whom to fly the funny-faced kites you love to make. You lie in an unmown field stare at the sky, and wonder why you are here. Each night in your bed you dread the coming of another day. You are twenty-seven with artist hands that sketch what others cannot see. The hunger in the eyes of the wild wolf-dog framed above your mother's bed. You are twenty-seven never felt your family loved you even when they screamed it to the high heavens. Anthony, sullen Anthony who boasted no true friend; who never fit in no matter how hard you tried. Is that why you wanted your life to end on September 4, 1992? Left this brother grieving for you.

Copyright © May 2000 Doris C. Swearingen


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