Inventory 1

Make an itemized list of the things your deceased brother left behind:

Leftover one boot in the garage, The other in transit, Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Three more pairs of shoes: casual, dressy and athletic white. The bottoms, untouched. 

Four perfectly preserved white under tanks, Hanes. The smell of musk left on them like a mint on your pillow. Three pairs of pants. Two dress shirts. Collars and sleeves pressed the way an entrepreneur learns to press his own work. Large box of Reynolds Foil. Drivers License burned and not yours. Three books; The Alchemist, The Man Who Sold his Ferrari, Alcoholics Anonymous. One of them is untouched. A Verizon bag with empty boxes, a receipt from Ross, one hand towel and one bath sized towel, more of an ocean green than sage. 64 pieces of paper filled with scriptures and scribbles and the teachings of 7 habits of highly successful people. One page full of tattoo ideas, another for businesses to start,several poems about heartache and poems about revenge. Maybe one is a scavenger hunt? Search for any clue. 

Lists of people's names and numbers like; Taylors Dealer, Mikes older brother and Jerry the Fat Fuck, never used. Prison artifacts handmade bookmarks

jailbird sonnets about doin’ time 

lists of numbers to resources never used. Brothers locked inside buildings where light was not permitted and overdoses happen like meals    

three 

times 

 a

 day.

I have two brothers. I had two brothers. 

The body, off duty,    used.

Death is completed homework graded and turned in, you passed.