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Homecoming By Nic Sebastian I will return one day a peddler all hung about with winking boxes in each a sweet thing will nestle - a fragrant salt color, a talking blue smell. On Fourth and Main at Sarah’s the neighbors will mutter we knew she would come to no good but my father will hire a brass band. Here is my daughter, he will announce in his purple bay leaf voice. |