Excerpts from
B R O A D S I D E
Kimo Armitage and Michael Puleloa • 2005 • $0
Designed by Gaye Chan

10 YEARS OLD in 1990

Yowa faddah is cool.
---------So think of your own transition(s)-your mission,
He play cops and robbas with you.
Pounding longneck beers
just like the movies.
---------like Tutu say and walk, think-not
---------of asphalt/ass/asphyxiation, but shoreline, small-kine
Das da first time I eva saw one gun, Run!
da way he make pretend,
Hold 'em to yowa head
---------[went click].
Like Bank robba,
tell you get on da flowa,
calling you fat piggy boy, fat piggy boy, fat piggy boy
---------a true stitch, in you, you, you.
You was good too,
Acting like you really scared
Call me again when you guys going play - pray.
I wish my faddah had one gun.
I get.

Kimo Armitage's most recent book, Akua Hawai'i : Hawaiian Gods and Goddesses has just been published by Bishop Museum Press. He has just turned in the manuscript for his next book to his publisher. This book will be comprised of a series of interviews of Hawaiian women. He likes to drink `awa and discuss Hawaiian issues - sometimes at the same time.

Michael Puleloa is a student in the English Department at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He considers the island of Molokai his home. He is currently designing Hawaiian, Pacific, and World Literature curriculum for high school students.