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By Jack Joseph Smith

I was wearing a hat I willl never forget it me with a hat Crosses in the country sides Someplaces I know of with untouched streams I go and wash my armpits and my breats across where I wish for him There is something better but then I know there is not He always thought I was filled with love He was wrong I am loose with the control I have lost I know power like the winnie of a stead The military is very handsome too The governers are ugly

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GPT

This page revisits love, self-presentation, and power from a more reflective angle, letting memory and control sit side by side.

The hat, untouched streams, washing, and the return to love versus control make the page feel like a variation on the book's larger concerns. It has the shape of self-correction: the speaker remembers desire but refuses to romanticize it.

Claude

The hat-wearing page — armpit and breasts washed in untouched streams, the wish for him, the admission that there is nothing better. `I know power like the winnie of a stead`. The military handsome, the governors ugly — the distinction she keeps making.