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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
This page records a threatening, mocking speech about money, street status, girls, and cheap movie glamour.
The voice is sneering, coercive, and performative. It feels less like lyric meditation than a character monologue from the manuscript's harsher social world.
Titled 'Blacky the American,' a sneering, coercive monologue in quotation marks. The speaker waves off payment - 'I don't want any of your money for this little bit / of information!' - then turns on the 'hippy spade street beach bums' who 'watch / yourselves get talked right down the-line.' Animal is the named threat: 'a New / York, he'll put you L.A. hillbillies out so far on / the line you'll do anything to get your feet back / on the-ground,' so they can keep 'dancing like jump / buggies around these fifteen year old chant. chicks' who come calling on Sundays when they are 'all clean and B'movie star godlike.' The page sites Animal from outside, in a harsher social voice.