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By Jack Joseph Smith

Sweet as Well fhe horror of love I did not take your life in a dream, the eafe* A regular world It is as real as you want it Normal war in thunder Rock and roll; make sure, you don't rock the boat You gems with what has never happened before All the while, all along Tough a knock on wood I will just spin And with a slight of hand take heads off Serious, and blind

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Sweet as Well relocates the same threat to a cafe and a regular world, blending war, thunder, rock and roll, and sleight of hand into blind seriousness.

The cafe matters because it makes the menace ordinary rather than dreamlike or ceremonial. "Normal war in thunder" and "don't rock the boat" place entertainment and violence in the same atmosphere, as if modern life has already absorbed both. The promise to spin and take heads off is delivered with a casual exactness that makes the ending feel colder, not louder.

Claude

'Sweet as Well' expands 320: real-world cafe, normal war in thunder, rock-and-roll don't rock the boat, gems with what has never happened before. Slight of hand still takes heads off, 'Serious, and blind.'