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By Jack Joseph Smith

ae ; acknowledgement’ of a money maker, while the after: paim wascmost always:atout what: never: get said Now ‘his seyes were far away and fadeds Tonight . he: had ‘am engagement. to sing ata fallen bar , : bought fer a yeung lady by an. ed movie. atary “ yi fenth? 2. Bethe star's death had clesed’ an eraxef at: AAS pas ‘ least.a small circle; and the young lady was: not se young anymore -even iin her mint er-wayss’ Jiven Jee would ‘break his engagement, and’ ine stead ‘hussle seme stuff fora different type-of salesmenships For he knew that anyone can die from making a mistakey but he could‘control the existence ef his never: being in prisen. again, AvIAAS Picking up to his stridé, Jaugeline had‘ weund’ through the curves of Brentwood's Sunset Bulvds The Madyone -and'E, were like flakes ef treed’ rex asonableness:at: the end'ef a world: centered at: the strip, linked’ through the plateau's ef Bev eraly Hills; branched: trinmed’ by men. upom the elete imeric¢an Spanial riser canyon! s, and idéad’ : dying asstwigs a thousand’ yardé: before the cliffs - by Safeway stores :and ‘patronage unlimiteds’ . The metion of them walking down to the Santa” Monica bars shad ‘been carefree, There~had’ been waves and the effer of rides but te ene another: they were certainly cleaned’from cars; Passing

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GPT

The page ties acting, hustling, and mortality together, then lets Jaugeline's movement through Brentwood and Santa Monica reopen the wider social map of the book.

Jiven Joe's calculation about prison and death is coldly practical, while the landscape description around Jaugeline returns the poem to a city built out of class zones, routes, and exposed desire. The shift feels deliberate: private schemes always spill back into the geography that formed them.


Claude

Acting, hustling, and mortality are tied together, then Jaugeline's walk through Brentwood carries the scene into another register. The page is a pivot.