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Memories of my Brother XII
You seemed to grow old suddenly
While I was still mid-game or
Mid-sentence, even
And then you were not so much you
As some stranger
I happened to share the house with
And I think that's when we stopped
Pretending we were close
Because you were practically fossilised
In your new school
And I was little more than a foetus
Waiting to grow out of mine
And some days you swigged lemonade in town
With the magnitude of your eleven years
Weighing on me like
The sky had become too heavy for its shoulders
I would throw your old paper aeroplanes
Down the bend in the stairwell
And wonder why there was no longer
A little boy to throw them back up
Like every game was a test
For physics
And for me
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