By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
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.
'Before The Top' is a location-memory written from drift and youthful ambition. The speaker sits 'in Seattle / With Gibbons' on a grandstand the friend 'had walked me to / At about six o'clock / in the morning.' The geography stays rough and dreamlike - 'wee to the middle of / what is next,' 'the sprial docks to ladded / wood over Gueen Ann Hill' - and the scene closes on 'Drinking a whole lot as / a nineteen sixty two experaned,' the misspelling left intact.