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A poem from Kerrin McCadden’s book, Keep This To Yourself.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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weeks after my brother overdoses I
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searched Craigslist for sadness a white
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couch the only result happiness lands
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red shipping containers and that’s it
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I wander through days like an envelope
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marked please forward listen my brother
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is a ghost I keep thinking I am NOT a
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sister anymore
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though others assure me I still am just
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sister them builders say to make a
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thicker beam or to span a distance join
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the faces of two-by-sixes with nails
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make more from less make do no one will
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let me have my sadness retaliate when
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I’ve lost I make lists like recipes for
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how to go on alone I draw his death when
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I doodle making little crime scenes as
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if this epidemic were a murderer a
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suspect a criminal
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I draw him on every sidewalk to inflate
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the numbers to give my brother to
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everyone inside the outline I do some
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math I add him to 72,000 and subtract
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him from me
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you
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[Music]
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