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Eighty Two

One of the things that’s always irked me about english
is that you have to wait till the end of the sentence to find out it was actually a question
spanish puts the punctuation at the front.

before I had all the answers,
when we went places like to the beach and I asked my mom where the waves came from,
she’d say, ¿Que se yo?
which means, how do I know?
so I made binoculars with my hands and looked out over the sea as far as I could
but I couldn’t see anything making them
I asked my older brother,
who promptly roared and said, ‘I MAKE THE WAVES’ and began splashing around.
his idea, I admit, had some merit
but the waves came from way far away
I concluded, that there must be older brothers everywhere in the world wreaking this sort of havoc
for longer in my life than I care to admit

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