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By Jack Joseph Smith

f AL é 1 . @ . Part. Ip Aitimal e < } 7, “Hole frame the sun stood stilt on him’. Witepering, : C . summer wind touched slightly om tte brink listening qe PAS tontihe sew e murmur grabbing his body and he renee direatiheat removing water, when pecking beneath MP j Plante: there wae always a: Peeling of mist for him. a : This: war not er fecling Mike the abandonment of life), - or like being only words’. . cy STt takem me inte: the earth of thinges* ; Tt te AMinadt,, and’ now he ie Tooking owt to yous! No . need? to get far fetched ebout Afiiimels! Seen way out ie: the: sung. It glinmers), fades; , and then aske the ; musoles: of the Inman race to push owt end catch tte , = lone powers. Below there ts sexy rolling slight. For aaa | these are the places Animal’ inhebites: ielanda, , dunes). and’ the end of deserts. Wiere there is sea: in sooth;: where the foam of salt ant blazed cheek may settle on santa 3 The soft wind asked him ta cond, and he rose aut of : enmoney blanket on Madison Avenue and fallowed>:.There _ Fematned for arlong tine though e thing to fight, for : “a the: estate posted ite eins in e.check at hie doorstep : of the seven seat ag he pushed on toward hie time for . — deadiation). : "Wiew my mother wept it hurt my youth, , because she } Wae a- getting olier delicate toy my fatiers PTung from 4a ther mints as wasteful children dof?I"hewe hed not = : . q Home to load, but uy mother dreamed of falling in.eilk i oe from the corner of the penthouse wall;.The Artimel howe SO over, ia not. any poet's pit’ of stones Problens may be = : the constemt nag of wishful bites, but. will garntah the-longing pull. of the beach bums possibility dreams with pitchers of nm ant! cokes" : "Tt wee om the- Caribbean, where fined glase for noon - ashore drinks seemingly cast out. & cryatel upon the | native weitere hands,’ Within the site the Tower deck . ; tucks tightly away ite Merchant: Englishmen,’ Weok They looked! up from their duties and eluming Lediiees. Roun? coined eliver hae turned out dipping im tum dom ae thecbweeze through the aire! It was tossed from the “ yi slips belcony by: the poor poor lady who has cancer { chvioue om her fate, ant! her Pevorabe brought it up from bottom to: surface im hie white teothi. mais. as al eee eee ae nee 8 2 eee et es

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AI Interpretation

GPT

This page builds Animal out of drift, inheritance, and spectacle, moving from beach and desert light into mother-memory, city ruin, and Caribbean fantasy.

The voice keeps remaking the figure of Animal by throwing him through different social and imaginative terrains. Madison Avenue, penthouse sorrow, merchant Englishmen, and tropical drink culture all become part of a restless myth of modern dislocation.

Claude

Labeled 'Part I, Animal' — the same sun-standing-still opening as page 11, now expanded to include the mother weeping in silk from a penthouse corner and a Caribbean scene where a dying woman tosses rum-colored silver from her ship's balcony. The page shows Animal assembling his origin myth out of both desert light and inherited class imagery.