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By Jack Joseph Smith

Security Of Any Kind I have lived with pathologicals and monsters as well When I would go to a number of courty jails over this problem I was once asked by my name Why a Morman wouldn't flat out d TIME go any kill This one experience had me saying that I had tried but their mother's got im the way And the receiving officer said, "how about the truth,, like it or not"" Joseph Smith

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This page moves from life among pathologicals and monsters into a jailhouse exchange about a Morman, killing, truth, and the handwritten invocation of Joseph Smith.

The scan-verified handwritten additions make the religious frame more explicit. The receiving officer's demand for truth still cuts through the speaker's violent story, but the `Joseph Smith` coda pulls the page back toward Mormon identity and accusation.

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'Security Of Any Kind' opens in the company of 'pathologicals / and monsters,' recalling 'a number / of courty jails,' where the speaker is asked 'Why a Morman / wouldn't flat out' kill. The transcript here is broken by OCR damage and a blacked-out deletion after 'kill,' so the exact charge stays partly unrecoverable. His excuse - 'I had tried / but their mother's got im the way' - meets the receiving officer's flat demand: 'how about the truth,, / like it or not.' The handwritten coda 'Joseph Smith' pulls the jailhouse exchange toward Mormon identity and accusation. This reading is partly provisional where the typed body is OCR-garbled around the deleted word.