A Note To The Reader (this means you):

This preliminary edition (in other words the first and perhaps last -- as usual)

is dedicated to my beloved son (and future literary executor)

Harry Oesterreicher.

Who heard a summary of the dedication story -- A Story for Yom Kippur 5755 --

earlier tonight.

Also learned that he does not have a copy of

Grand Hope Flowers on Figueroa

so here it is.

It ain't easy work being a literary executor ya know.

So here's your copy.

Don't sell it no matter how they offer a real deal.

$43 a day aint that much, not these days.

Much love and hope from your father and poet

(in that order I hope)

A. Oesterreicher

Yamin Noraim 5755

Los Angeles 1994 CE