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By Jack Joseph Smith

Your sister is funny Lies like hell,, the only time she is telling it like it is is when she is snubbing you on her special way by O my goodness, is there a nose in the air That is what we got She is the person I work for Lauran every day Cause that is what it is about I got lucky; I did it for forty years in a row,, nothing taken back, or stripped,, streight up and pulling my own weight,, and the way along the line Things will change. For all of us. There is horror; there is wisdom as weal; it is careful,, it is in you, not the signs

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'Your sister is funny' frames the sister's snubbing, work for Lauran, forty years of labor, change, horror, wisdom, and signs.

The page keeps family irritation, earned work, and private wisdom in the same field. Its misspellings and doubled punctuation are part of the source texture rather than transcription errors.

Claude

Titled 'Your sister is funny,' a sardonic family portrait that turns into a working-life credo. The sister 'Lies like hell,' and the 'only / time she is telling it like it is / is when she is snubbing you' - 'is there a nose in the air.' From that irritation the speaker swings to earned dignity: 'I work for Lauran every day,' 'I did it for forty years / in a row,, nothing taken back, or / stripped,, streight up and pulling / my own weight' (source spelling). It closes on hard-won wisdom, 'There is horror; there is wisdom as weal; / it is careful,, it is in you, not the signs' - locating truth in the person rather than in outward indicators. Doubled commas and the spellings 'streight' and 'weal' are part of the source texture.