My Big Head

Thank you for being the one Who told me I mattered more And to just let the boogie board go Because we can always get another one but we can’t get another you For putting that image in my brain so early Walmart cardboard cut-outs of each of us No such thing Alone - the only ones here And not for very long at all So don’t die Because your head was so freaking big

Baseball

Thank you for being the one To escape the house alone with me To the fields by the lake where they stock fish Where joey told me Keep your eye on the bobber When I couldn’t stop talking You taught me pretty much everything else Every argument just something I hadn’t learned yet And hoped weren’t true The most recents being that I should study computer science And stay in consulting That I may be good at it Thank you for making us both care about something Just so we could escape the house alone together

My First Twin

thank god thank god thank god you exist One of my twins Do I have many, because of you? The first person, maybe, who showed me what it meant to be no matter what always there Never going to let you down (goddammit, goddammit)

Even when we were just kids You told me: depressed, I think Driving up Tar Hollow (So we must’ve been close) I went full flight or fight Not the first time And listened and tried to ask questions And so continued the not short story of holding each other through life