as references to my brother
appear elsewhere
I ask my mother
if I can use
her lipstick

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collateral:

I have a friend who was asked
by a representative
of a reality TV show
to be someone
different-

someone famous.

-

I smoke *** under my sister’s bed.

stand and brush her fingernails
from my belly.

she thinks I’m her brother.

-

saying
they’ve nothing
to prove

     many attest
to the hush
of my father’s
congregation

-

when brother is born
I am due
his mirror

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wager:

in one place
at once

     God