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By Jack Joseph Smith

Newny & Ufrieda 2WIt/ [SEC eepecnetiog EVUEY 7 ww 2 gard the right wheel on bang bang i Up above Sault Saint Marie my Bug was going in—April 2. tile t Ww ! And there above id snow/were a gang of guys hanging ¢ SwAGow Vel 7 out in an vld éalership /of-tire~same five years after a ten year copper mine had gone/so it was a sort of dreaming But it was an axle bolt and everybody laughed at five bucks Happy going down from those fellows off their big wooded flat Three Great Lakes below the hunters I crossed the bridge Headed for Oregon across the North Midwest like a sightseer Very cold across Montana grasslands my battery went dead At six o'clock in the morning ME were up Sed ia "1 4 yileRHe at the station i a} LLP ind 4,1 é laughed at a typewriter and pack in place Oo U Vs fy’ AY where there should es ¢ LD while they jumped it y and I displayed my mother's home made quilts - yy! AS goormé&a & WHE done ow Wit ghrdews Ie heh

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The page survives mainly as a fragmentary notation, with names and broken signals that resist a fuller reading.

Because the transcript is so unstable, the page works more like residue than finished poem. What remains suggests naming, code, or address, but not enough survives to support a stronger interpretation.


Claude

A narrated-with-marginalia page about the speaker's VW Bug breaking an axle bolt above Sault Sainte Marie, everyone laughing, heading to Oregon across Montana with a dead battery while the mother's home-made quilts are displayed — autobiography under dense handwritten annotation.