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By Jack Joseph Smith

Before The Top There before the circus I was sitting in Seattle With Gibbons Right on this grandstand He had walked me to At about six o'clock in the morning; I am wee to the middle of what is next after the sprial docks to ladded wood over Gueen Ann Hill Drinking a whole lot as a nineteen sixty two experaned

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Before The Top recalls Seattle, Gibbons, a circus grandstand, early morning, sprial docks, ladded wood over Gueen Ann Hill, drinking, and a nineteen sixty two experience.

The page is a location-memory written from drift and ambition. The cleaned transcript keeps its rough place spellings while making the Seattle scene readable.

Claude

''''Before The Top' -- Seattle, 1962, sitting with Gibbons on a grandstand at 6 a.m., 'spiral docks to ladded wood over Queen Ann Hill.' Drinking a lot as an experienced nineteen-year-old.'''