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By Jack Joseph Smith
was a fist fighter with gloves, and then a whiskey
salesman, he thought to himself And
here it was nothing but boring to con-
sider domestic dities.
Animal turned in his chair and watched two old
ladies (forty or so, but old) reading the lips of
one another's slow moving red on red lipstick. One
with bunched up hair and a pale dress could only
facially be seen from the side; But it was easy to
decern that there was no sound in her mouth. The
other was at a distance, her elbows resting on the
last curvature of the bar. For the latter lady, he
had to narrow his eyelids, and press his pupils to
stretch for open sight. Finally he could witness
her and his mind took on the picture of her falli-
ing; while her lips signaled, that her soul had
lost its echo.
The time was coming into evening; Animal knew it
was bad to be inside drinking when the sun was sett-
ing. He looked into Colonel's eyes; and enjoyed a
sharp good blue. Not a Hollywood blue; for there
graves; that through only pinpoint to pinpoint of
growth had mixed as if into a substance of cream