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enjoy this Kyle Hemmings writing in the free April 2013 PDF file chapbook I Was Charles Bronson’s Secret Hostage				You can also order this as a 2013 6" x 9" perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book! Click on the cover spread for the book I Was Charles Bronson’s Secret Hostage

Before You Leave Oz

Kyle Hemmings

It’s a red sundowner. You imagine a blade of grass feeling like
a wick. The wick is you, burning slow. Your mother dumps the
last of the compost, complains how she’s been breaking rocks for
years. Just for you. Father left months ago with a willowy women
allergic to alfalfa. But she loved jazz and the way your father exaggerated
his lean years in Kansas, a yellow sky of pure waiting.
Tomorrow’s clouds will spell the name of a boy with a mystic lisp.
Tomorrow you’ll spend half of your allowance, sent by envelope
from your dad, on this boy at the pizza parlor. You’ll wish his
dimples are as big as dimes so you can pocket them. You’d be
as rich as the woman who leans towards your father, shoulders
rolled, knees turned, merging her skinny self with his funky brand
of night-shade.

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