sue tames my Brother for his media appearance

my Brother never appears on media as much of

what he knows is acquaintance-historic & accidental.

a good hero in black he never wears black at home

as home is a place was never the broken home

he wanted to come from; only the suits make him sweat

I came to understand his song the “ma ma ma ma ma

de ma ma ma el em land de ma ma ma ma mi madre dice que

la la la la la la sin un hogar negro nunca en Rocky costa nacimos

       sumergido en el agua de los demás”

even though I did not speak  « no hablo espanol » &

I can’t stand the thought of us growing cold together in Hobart

I never understood my brother’s need to push it push it

in the major key ’”cause I can’t stand no swelter”

we shared mulled breast milk in this swelter that

he mentions; together the chance to go swimming

before appearing on TV, on a stone sucking in salt water

we flee the heat by jumping in, without asking how many times

he has rhymed the reason I’m fleeing with the buzz of our “being”

by which I think he means the method in our

post-translation “up-brining” / sue tames my Brother

when I dive into the ocean as his song surrounds me

like total water and “get off me” but sue has ha tamed him

so he’s no longer rough-like