Brother Identity Poems

SELF PORTRAIT

To be objective about oneself is hard
All the others’ competing observations
Reluctant to let them into a conclusion
Yet one remains trapped in confusion
Despite all those...

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by Max Burchett

Lots of flattery and L.A. handshakes given,
But once upon a time, actually just last year,
A seemingly casual compliment was for me heaven,
One I...

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In shadows cast by prejudice, a knock resounds,
At the door of your heart, where peace abounds.
Brother, let not questions cloud the air,
For I am like...

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I wish I was a manly man, a poor man’s money monger,
Making war and living for the day when I was stronger,
Many men are making...

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My flag is not black n white with a blue streak 
My flag is not a field of white stars n scars of machine guns
My...

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The outty and the inny
Fleshy repeated stabbings
Produce a ninny
To be tossed to the fray
And taught their worth for the day
Is to obey
What we say
Of how,...

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She was never a girly girl
did not care about wearing her
mother’s high heel shoes,
or painting her nails.
Wasn’t interested in putting on lipstick,
or smearing makeup on...

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Oh flesh of many colors,
          brothers all are we,
       ...

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Hold your head up brother and stick your chest out 
for you are somebody 
whether you know it or not feel it or not. Believe...

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Don’t be sad over what you have lost, 
Smile for what you had.
If you inflict pain in every memory, 
Each memory then turns bad.

Just close...

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Identical twins, me and my brother
Got the same birthday, got the same mother
Don’t know if I’m he
Don’t know if he’s me
But I do know I’m...

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Do you have a middle name?
If so, how do you use it?
Our name is given when we’re born;
We do not get to choose it.

My middle...

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When Will We Wake Up?
I am So tire, Tire Of Racism
Tire of me hiding in the shadows
As if i was a Dog or a cat
because...

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Everything is the same.
Remember my name?

All is one.
Even though
if I cared to I 
could count to 100.
Does that make me rare, too?

The bottomline:
we all want...

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I
She's now almost four months old
He is at least four months older
She is half-sister, sharing a mother
So far, she, Kaalnek, somewhat bolder
Than her half-brother, somewhat...

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