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Not Enough Totos To Go Around

Chris Volkay

Dorothy
Tinman
Scarecrow
Lion

All trembling down
hall to meet the
great and powerful Oz.
Shaking,
weak,
unworthy.
Great balls of
yellow and red
fire explode before their
eyes like universes being born.

Toto jumps out of
Dorothy’s arms
pulls back the curtain
exposing Oz as a
big fat
fraud.

We inch down the aisles
through the pews
feeling weak,
Trembly,
unworthy.
The sun stains our faces yellow and red
through the ornate
windows that entomb us.

Carrying miters, they appear
from behind the curtains,
the shaking begins.
There just aren’t enough
Totos to go round.

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