Page 429

By Jack Joseph Smith

Dave We would spin each other around, mostly in talk, other talk too, but in trouble, I see that we are back to back; I think you sence that sight. Here is how it is. How wonderful Liza is to me. It isn't, as if, rather it is that she does no wrong. I'm good a little bit more than a few times, but I am no good alot more. Just shut up, and let her run the music. She got to be the best friend your are ever going to have in your entirity of life.

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Addressing Dave, this page contrasts the speaker's own disorder with Liza's steadiness and treats her as the truest companion available.

It reads like a companion piece to 'Liza.' The cleaned transcript makes the movement clearer: mutual trouble and back-to-back loyalty open into praise of Liza as the one who should be allowed to run the music.

Claude

'Dave' is the prose companion to 'Liza', spoken to a named friend about the same loyalty: 'We would spin each other around, / mostly in talk', but 'in trouble ... we / are back to back; I think you / sence that sight'. The page pivots into testimony about Liza - 'How wonderful / Liza is to me ... she does no wrong' - set against the speaker's candid self-accounting: 'I'm good a little bit more than a few / times, but I am no good alot more'. The advice is to step aside for her gift, 'Just shut up, and let her run the music', because 'She got to be the best friend your are / ever going to have in your entirity of / life' - the speaker's own unreliability making her steadiness the more precious.