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By Jack Joseph Smith
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jE vont across the street, Avoided the stoplight, :
and° continued; Therein the dark down. by the -seas
There “he laughed at: his-ghest, .and decided not’ to
runj’ He turned’ walking into neon, The glaze-was like
muclar Rio De-Janeres.
The -coming morning when the sun breke, A crazy
clear, Gray cement, blue sky’ Later as: he watked
toward the-city another glaze was appearing at its-
ceiling and then falling as-yellow dust. Strange
sky, The -cement new and ther, beth of street: and’
dwelling, pillars: and factories: electistronic, an
coler red’, a-color. of oranges
The evening; walking back over the last. hump: of”
street te the beach; A red sum also a browm orange
; of” sand and’ inspecting light;' He watched the big
ball go down, watched the intensity of it spread
nature-at the-end ef the crumbling sound ef Les “
Angeles?’ THe -sun was: going extreamly fast, and’ it ee
sank; He turned and went: bask up over the hump ag=- é
aim to:visit! O'Mahomie! ss! The ‘Cornel sat at the last.
tahle te the far right ef the~bar as: Animal’ entered;
Leoking up he smiled, and Animal alse broadly, He rem
cognized an excellent’ position of matter in tine with
liis-omr space when he-saw: ones’
8yeit, the Animal," said’ the Cornel,’
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