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By Jack Joseph Smith

Glenther I walked out on the verands And server Neal Cassidy and his buddy Oatmeal stuffed with caned fruit at eleven O'clock in the morning Going tell mid day the stars kept shooting across the ends of the colored sea The tropic of Capricorn had taking me under The trick for me was I had serious power cause I finished grammer school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania There was not a second when with the war of worlds That my sholder was not taped Louise and me Big Sur 1964

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GPT

A Big Sur memory places Neal Cassady, the real Beat figure later transformed throughout Kerouac's fiction, beside makeshift food, shooting stars, Pittsburgh schooling, and a war of worlds.

The cosmic and comic continually trade places. Cassady's presence locates the speaker inside lived Beat history, while the stars and Tropic of Capricorn enlarge the scene and grammar school and canned fruit puncture its grandeur; the handwritten date anchors that collision in a specific remembered 1964.

Claude

Serving Neal Cassidy oatmeal on a Big Sur veranda expands into stars, the Tropic of Capricorn, Pittsburgh childhood, and a handwritten Louise-and-me memory dated 1964.