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Birthed as a result of commenting on another poem. Minor editing tweak but basically as is.

Visited a poet friend's page today and commented on a poem about their cousin's honey bee farming adventures.

from a comment in response to TOMH's thistle poem.

This poem is published elsewhere as 'we were brothers once.'

Written in the mid-80s for a writing friend after many conversations on poetry and suicide during a brief period which resulted in a small body of work tagged the Wittenberg poets. The background is a suicide of their close friend, Stevie, in the early 60s during their W. University days; an event which traumatised Mr. Ballou many decades after. Another attempt at self-offing by the poetic narrator in the early 80s serves as the contrast. Apologies for the serious themes tackled herein.