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By Jack Joseph Smith

Remembers Chicago sometime in the late fifties. Prankster puts the chain belt to his ribs; ties it and starts. The wind of winter rushers off the lake. His cycle large and in style is his women. Hating drugs and the fashion of it's coming, his rush is to the center; L.A. Become the lie, know the lie, fade past film. He dreams of the desert as he mounts. The roar on his feet gives a vibrative silence that can only be recognized at the view of his dirt cleaned finger- nailes. On the road is not litterate to him, and escape is not a question. Although realease is a a dedication confronting the weary, to survival,, he is beyond now in the not rememberence of dreams, as his thought may only look upon a mashing mind traced on wind until?

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This page mythologizes Prankster through winter Chicago, cycling, women, anti-drug posture, speed, and a dreamlike escape from the road.

The language keeps trying to make character out of motion. Style, weather, women, and travel are not incidental details here; they are the machinery by which the figure of Prankster is being invented. The scan-reviewed spellings keep the prose rough and unstable in useful ways.

Claude

Headed 'Remembers,' an origin-myth for Prankster set in 'Chicago sometime in the late fifties.' He 'puts the chain belt to his ribs; ties it and starts,' the winter wind 'rushers off the lake,' his cycle 'large and in style is his women.' He is built out of refusals and motion - 'Hating drugs and / the fashion of it's coming' - and out of erasure: 'L.A. Become the lie, know the lie, fade past film.' The prose makes character from speed itself, down to 'the view of his dirt cleaned finger- / nailes,' until thought can 'only look upon a mashing mind / traced on wind until?' Character is invented by the same motion that dissolves it.