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Hymie and Nat

Drew Marshall

Hymie and Nat, ran the local delicatessen

During the summer, they wore short sleeve shirts
The delicatessen, didn’t have air conditioning
Everyone could see, the numbers, tattooed, on their wrists
The brothers had been interviewed, on a local news station

Hymie was a compact, positive, bundle of energy
Happy, smiling, quick with a joke
Extending credit, to anyone that bothered to ask
Nat wasn’t so lucky
He was out of it, grim, never smiled

Who knows what nightmares, haunted Hymie?
His wife and son died, in the camps

Hymie and Nat closed up shop, about ten years ago

They took part of the neighborhood’s character, with them

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