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By Jack Joseph Smith

And I went to war under the Southerrn Cross I hoboed and laid block I did really well with my study of insects And I was at the University of Arizona with that girl from E.. Island also I loved Cuba; I gave up a boat for those guys, and a girl I think I've seen poetry on fire, and I put it out; just for the generations I went up and asked for some shorts, in a negro village, cause my jeans had been ripped in the back, while I refused to tell them where I'd beem And I put three solid years into watching animal shows while drinking that Vocka Had one kid;

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This autobiographical wandering page catalogs labor, Cuba, insects, poetry, villages, alcohol, and television animals as part of one restless generational life.

The cleaned transcript makes the accumulation steadier. The sheer breadth of reference is the point: the page wants a life to feel improvised, worldly, and morally mixed.


Claude

'''Reprise of the Southern Cross war / hoboing / Arizona page -- poetry on fire then extinguished for the generations. Cuba, a girl from Long Island, three years of animal shows on vodka, one kid.'''