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Kyle Hemmings

    I met her on the Japan Tour, late in ‘66, a diminutive smiling girl called Ali. I couldn’t pronounce her last name, so she wrote it across the back of my briefs, laughing like a child inventing myths. On plum wine, we were limitless. She said she had aspirations to be a pop singer but she hated her own demos. She gave me some. Mostly songs of love and loss in Japanese, she said. Well, what songs weren’t about love and loss, I thought.
    One night in her apartment, over a crowed Meiji Street, she handed me what she called John Lennon’s left shoe. She said he and I had similar shoe sizes—an intuition on her part. I asked her what if he returns and wants it back? She said he would never come back, a gut feeling. When I told her my band would soon be leaving for the States, she said we must not say good-bye abruptly. It’s better if we part by expanding distances. It’s how she was able to cope with her grandfather’s death, until he became completely inarticulate.
    We stood and gazed at each other across a wood bridge, from opposite sides of a stream, or with her behind a tree and I gazing up, so many deceptive branches. With each distance, she grew progressively smaller. I imagined fitting her in my palm, protecting her from the rain, from people who pretended to be John Lennon. Until I shouted good bye over the ocean.
    Back in London, I had her voice on tape and I hired a translator. While playing the recordings, I would open my mouth during a chorus. The translator kept saying You are so far away.



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