We Never Went to Brooklyn

There’s enough money to fly 

to the moon if you wanted. 


Or maybe the sun, like she always 

said she was. The sun, scorching 


Mercury as it revolves. Close

to the sun at the top of the country, 


but not close to Brooklyn. Never Brooklyn. 

To her, Brooklyn was a story she wanted 


the authority to tell. But she’s stolen enough

of my stories, and now, I think, I’m certain, 


Brooklyn might just, maybe, belong to me.


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