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By Jack Joseph Smith

Glenther, Louise Big time, "we own all of North America, so why buy land" Bobby sat on my floor He did not smoke grass You want to talk about Jews He got along fine He drank that red wine and did not pay ten cents for it She said Gaanish Village was small against Sur Sur She said she saw me with the nutmag on the red wood table having peach oatmeal and Country Clib Malt Liguer

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GPT

A second Louise draft repeats the Kennedy and land stories while grounding them in Big Sur, food, wine, and the oddly exact textures of remembered domestic life.

Repetition turns memory into revision. Public figures and grand claims keep returning, but nutmag, peach oatmeal, and malt liquor pull the poem toward the sensory details through which the speaker actually remembers Louise.


Claude

A variant of the Kennedy and land anecdotes contrasts village life with Big Sur and recalls a shared meal of peach oatmeal and malt liquor.