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                     For the Four

                                             Charles C Brooks III & Anthony DeTomasso

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I walked away from the Three

without one regret.

I am haunted by a scholar’s

higher call and wife.

My wealth is the cross I bear

My sadness no longer wrecks the world.

So many years in this game.

You watched me reel

in the same dwelling hole

I created for us all.

But it is at an end.

Remember me-

made of a

knife’s edge, nightshade,

and an aristocratic Southern drawl.

Your Doc Holiday dying slowly

in his own wit

with a curse around his neck.