bonding
raze one man's idea
of bonding:

barking orders at
his sun-stung son
while he struggles
with the weight of
the water he once
tried to drown his
sister in, mocking
every sound and
move he makes.

"focus," the fledgling
hears his father say,
when to do that would be
to take in the whole of
the hell he was born into.

he bunts his basketball
at the backboard and fights
to forget his own name.
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what's it to you?
who go
blather
from