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By Jack Joseph Smith
Was a smooth, once jolly fat. Now there were lines,
thin lines of red curved up under his eyes. The
thing about his eyes was, they were like mine, and
I knew he had fought hard to keep at least the pupils from
diming.
Do ya' see what I mean Animal? His is a useless
challange; as many challanges may be; but I res-
pect it, yet I can't support it any longer with my
own ethical blood. You see Animal, laborers think
too. All the time ya' know. The problem is that
an American worker, when he works in the middle of
the battering of factory sound, which is also a
time when any man could not controll being absol-
utely alone; during this time, maybe ten hours of
pressure extreme; the American worker dreams jea-
lous dreams of those who don't work. He hates all.
Nothing in his mind is not rejected or distroyed.
But when the buzzer rings, he sees the rich with
problems with their wives, and the hyppies with
problems in their images, and then he goes out
into the city to buy a can of beer and laughs...
In the morning
for me; it was not only tobacco and alcohol I