live day in and day out in a haze like
how my sister didn’t know we were she
was in her own bed hands clawing for
another shot like she didn’t fall out of
my parked car when we got to her place
or like how she isn’t drowning herself
slowly survival noun a town I can only
return to once in a while because my
sister is still there
drowning and I have tried to lifeguard
too many times
survival noun a home a glass of whiskey
a couple hundred a miles of went away
that reminds me of home a place where my
sister still is a thing that kept me
alive that one time survival verb to be
too tired to help to have watch my
sister almost died too many times to
have been covered in someone else’s
stomach blood sister verb to be there
for each other when dying to have to
have shared so much survival like all
the times we don’t talk about like how
we can still sit in the bar where she
almost
and it feels like a home where she is
still drowning survival to have been at
home where someone is dying
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