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           if sleep doesn't help
           then nap. nap away
           until it is all gone -

then text the only person
who can understand how it
was - and laugh, laugh so
much it comes easy. tonight
my little brother and i will
go dancing. it will be an odd
combination of who will lead
i emasculated him a long time
ago when i left him on the side
of I.H.35 and told him to find
his own way home. instead he
went to new york - and laughs
at my relationship & i can only
say that in the last four years
i've had 1 with a few tributaries
- and you little brother are on # 5
in the last 4yrs since dad passed
it's different for men he says
then why laugh at mine: "he's
only doing what you have done
too so many." and he laughs
such a knowing laugh - well
cuz ....

and he pauses and thinks - then
as easy as the answer came to him
he let it go - after all he is a musician