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By Jack Joseph Smith

Then Colonel became embarrishd, There was no res= son te explain the past. They Had come-te enjoy one- another as: the Beat’ Heuse lad begun to take shapes They had Ween personality asseciates, Tle Colonel" s idéa ef making it im the werld’ on ene!s: ewn, ment. to: lite that le could never be-made-a fool! of, Te tot af Animal’ on the other hand, memory’ wae just’ another verbal baw +ipping HIN Gotef this world, trickster im—theamiverse, . . Colonel asked’ of nial; “Who is the head monk?® “Tie Father, ,the Son, , and the-Hely-Grost;-Budda;, Jesus, .and’ money,” . _The-lrstte-neuter; not-nan-or_women, Sewhat -Adea-it: mean? “Money: is net the Hely Ghost Animal.® \ “To money it iss" : \\ Next’ to where-they sat was:a money lenders: window’ AS » back iv Bll, X Am the-corner, opening from a~boeth behind the weklm . \ Said: Colonel, “every friday night, , someday the mam : from that: office-gonna ‘be pass’en euti checks to my people, and’ they: ain’ t*going to be sient by: no ghosts" Ligore dpimeal held his glass upe:"Thisyeiess will’ ewallow UA big fish proved Little Sish, LLL ct fook « CHW ae — by: glass and that enlenges-what- . fie sna AP hike fees sgeldecee until we're ineide-of ite" In the-laughe ter, “Everything in this-city is temptation Budda-is

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GPT

This page makes money the blunt counterforce to mystical language, exposing how street metaphysics and practical hustling keep sharing the same room.

Colonel and Animal are not simply opposites here. One speaks in survival terms and the other in symbolic leaps, but both are trying to explain what rules this city, and the answer keeps sliding between spirit, appetite, and cash.


Claude

Money is used here as blunt counterforce to mystical language, exposing how street metaphysics still runs on rent. The page refuses to let talk escape economy.