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i've only had one love in my life and she and my brother were married
but her eyes they were mine, and the same with her heart
and the same with the babies she carried

twice a week noontimes we'd head out of town to a motel the next county over
we'd whisper our secrets and sweat out our demons
in the backwoods of east oklahoma

one day it was late on the backroad back home she was driving my black eldorado
i was catching up sleep on the passenger side
dreaming dreams that i'd never wake up to

then a thud and a thump and a screeching of tires and a bicyclist mangled and flying
and i snapped wide awake and i burst out the door
but when i reached him i saw he was dying

she ran up to my side and we stared at the ground to where the price of our sins was layin
and the silence of guilt echoed around
just the buzzin of crickets was playin

back in the car i stared at her tears flowin down the seat cover's stitching and with a glance and a nod and an unspoken promise
i turned the key and started the engine

weeks hobbled by and we didn't speak once i didn't touch her nor wish to be touched
spun alone in the bed in the sick depths of night
and my daytimes were faded and broken

til one wednesday noontime when the telephone rang and i froze when the voice shined electric
cause the sergeant was friendly but stern like a priest
called me downtown to answer some questions

one small little room one hot burning lamp one cigarette gone then another
one paper to sign one phone call to make
and i dialed the house of my brother

the trial it went quick, the pleadin went easy in a courthouse in east oklahoma
it was open and shut cause the witness they got
was that bicyclist out of his coma

and i've got ten years now to think long and slow on that vision of my brother beggin
for the love of god why won't you testify
but i only thought of his wife and his children

i serve one for the broken bones that we left two for the shatters of spirit
three for the babies that i'll barely know
and four for the corners of heaven

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from Cracked Picture Frames, released February 15, 2015

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