the voices are all wrong here
my mother's the keening note
of a broken piano
my father's the low mutter
of hail on an old tin roof
I make no sound
afraid that if I start to sing
my shameful relief will
spill out from my lips
like acrid smoke
instead I choke it all down
and focus on your waning voice
another lowly hum in
the melancholy chorus
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