A guitar and a piano sat alone. There was
a singer’s voice down the hallway and
a man sitting at a desk in an office.
The Church was serving a Wednesday night meal.
Two kids had wondered in a little late for the sixties.
1974 and they had a car they had been given in Little Rock
and were headed out to California and the ocean
to stay with his Great Aunt. A Wednesday night meal
and singing. The man at the desk was arranging a family to stay with
and a temporary job for the thirteen-year-old
and the fifteen-year-old and classes at the school.
All they had had to say was they were traveling out
to their aunt in California and the Church would call her
and then arrange help. The kids would never ask for cash
just a temp job and a family to stay with.
Both of them had been studying for black belts
at the Y and to them the world was a
beautiful adventure.
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