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By Jack Joseph Smith

Inside deaster is not the place you are supposed to look for life I was forty eight and had been walking across the trees for a long time, and skirted the sea's as well from way back and these characters were difinately different And the good thing about hanging with wild men is that being inside yourself is out of the question, the bad part of course is jail Just a little bit longer; won’t you stay, best line of any tune I havee ever heard Rushing into thongs is always hard,, but it is the only way not to have to think about it

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At forty eight, the speaker describes disaster, wild men, jail, a seductive song line, and rushing in as the only way not to think.

Looking for life inside deaster is named as a mistake, yet the page goes there anyway because the company of wild men breaks the trap of self-consciousness. Their appeal is real precisely because they force the speaker out of his own head, while jail marks the cost attached to that freedom. The quoted song line turns reckless delay into seduction, and rushing into thongs becomes a way of escaping thought.

Claude

A prose reckoning at forty eight: 'Inside deaster is not the place you / are supposed to look for life', yet the speaker goes there. The draw of wild men is that 'being inside yourself is / out of the question', though 'the bad part of course / is jail'. He quotes 'Just a little bit longer; won't you stay' as 'best line of any tune I havee ever heard', and lands on a creed of evasion: 'Rushing into thongs is always hard,, but / it is the only way not to have to think / about it'. The 'difinately / different' characters make self-escape the whole point.