Some Men In My Family

My one brother was adopted
So I don’t share any of his natural qualities
And my same-mother brother he’s no good
He claims a mix up at the hospital
On account of his curly blond hair
And I’m so obnoxious

We went on a ski vacation then came home
I went directly next door to tell Brian Fronczek
All the snow in Utah is exactly the same as all the snow here
It’s the depth that makes the difference
My natural brother fetched me home
On account of our grandpa
Was dead in the basement

We used to sit down there me and each of my brothers
Tossing Nerf balls to my grandfather's good hand
But now there would be no more of that
There would be a pronounced lack
Of throwing Nerf balls to paralytics
In the basement

Our dad would bring meals down to that carpet-ceilinged room
Peel for his own dad an orange, shred kernels off the cob
Then once a handicapped mess had been made of the food
That man down there would yell his own name which was Albert
or he'd yell, "CHRIST ALMIGHTY"

I kept calling my one brother adopted
I said, you're adopted, adopted
I ran from the laundry machine to the bathroom
Yelling Adopted! and You have a hole in your heart!
Because he did. People smarter than me call it a murmur
a ventricular septale defect
I yelled, You, Adopted, have a hole in your heart
through the locked bathroom door
and he kicked that shit off its hinges