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A quarter of a century was to elapse between the time when he saw

his father sitting with the strange woman and the time when he was to see

him again, standing alone upon the red clay of a Mississippi plantation, a

sharecropper, clad in ragged overalls, holding a muddy hoe in his gnarled ,

veined hands-a quarter of a century during which my mind and

consciousness had become so greatly and violently altered then when he

tried to talk to him he realized that, though ties of blood made us kin,

though he could not see a shadow of his face in his father’s, though there

was an echo of his voice in his father’s voice, they were forever strangers,

speaking a different language, living on vastly different planes of reality.

That day a quarter of a century later when he visited his father on the

plantation-his father was standing against the sky, smiling toothless, his

hair whitened, his body bent, his eyes glazed with dim recollection, his

fearsome aspect of twenty-five years ago gone forever from him-he was

overwhelmed to realize the his father could never understand, him or the

scalding experiences that had swept him beyond his father’s life and into

. . .

Often he would

creep into his Uncle’s room while he slept and stare at the big shinning

revolver that lay near his head, within quick reach of his hand. He did have a penny, but he was going to leave.

“ But I’m scared,” Richard said. Before dawn we were rolling away, fleeing for our

lives.

“How can I ever learn enough to get a job?” Richard asked her, switching

his tactics. “And you heard him!” …

“I killed’im,” Richard whispered.

“Well, Richard here’s your speech,” he said

“What speech” Richard said. She rose and

hobbled to him on paralytic legs and kissed him. He had made him

know that he felt he was cruel and he had done it without his punishing

him.

“Then I’ll leave,” Richard said, trembling violently

“You won’t leave,” she replied.

He ran to his room, got a battered suitcase, and began packing his

ragged clothes.

Approximate Word count = 2304
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)

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