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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The page urges life back into the hand through outlaw memory, romanticized reform-school America, impossible physics, and a creed of hell-raisers beyond priestly sanction.
Its opening imperative is practical and mythic at once: life has to be picked up again, and even Earth becomes a shoe horn for the act. The source form 'Al A Baba' and the strange reform-school line make the page feel half elegy, half cultural hallucination. By the end, print and hell-raising replace religious mediation, as if real recognition happens outside official blessing.
Pick it up again: Ali Baba forgive us for not remembering / how much we loved you when you made white skinned American reform schools romantic. Physics is the impossibility to end it.