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By Jack Joseph Smith

What The Hell If I did not have a cross I would not have a tale to tell I was even asked to rob a train and I said no The old way,,what the hell There I saw Geronimo at ten years old Apache territory and a totem pole This was the beginning of what the hell In that possibly there is a being Or something phony, rapped in a shell

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'What The Hell' moves from a cross and refused train robbery to Geronimo, Apache territory, a totem pole, and the question of being or phoniness.

The title gives permission for roughness, but the page is more skeptical than merely swaggering. It is drawn to frontier legend while also testing whether that legend is a shell around something real.

Claude

'''Two tiny fragments: one about hitting walls as evidence of existence ('you know something is there'), attributed to Hayden.'''