Printed on card stock; text superimposed on semiliterate handwriting in pale gray.

Title from first line.

At end of passage: Ernest J. Gaines.

"Copyright 1994 by Ernest J. Gaines. From A lesson before dying, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. This broadside was produced by Black Oak Books, Berkeley, on the occasion of a reading by the author. Designed and printed at Okeanos Press, 1994."

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Okeanos Press.