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By Jack Joseph Smith

IG6 "Your brains are missing," a voice from the body of police had yelled, * Buti rather it’ was the sensation from hard pumping blood: that was not there for themeoe He had directed the drugs to stop the flow from pulsating, go that when he had moved’ before: them it bewildered’ them that hia ‘body gave them no feeling of reaction though the x situation appeared incredables His mouth had turned’ up as the mask of sneer laughter, but not’ at’ them, rather his neck was then bent back and htis-face -had been raised fully to the skye It was as if ‘ he had acoepted his entire being ag being a symbol of distructions: excitement with absurdity just before: the flashe . Ther he had turned’ his eye down the barre¥ of the: gua seemingly knowing exactly where he -was: on the-Southern California ground. And moving fanatically closer toward the-spreading uniformed Vz seconds before=the: shot: from a wild heart governed by unsolem lips: he -had’ said, "it is the courageous. climax turned comfortable boys: = when a war knows he no longer need’ endure-that downward roll- out past what is already final only to fall fatiqued into the framed 'flats:of ending,” And there-in that flash on burning strips his mind was sucked from the-blue»to black man world shapes into a

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Blackman's shooting is rendered as a violent fusion of absurdity, courage, and annihilation, as though his body has chosen to become the symbol it was already speaking from.

The page refuses clean martyrdom. His language remains inflated and strange even at the edge of death, which makes the moment feel both grotesque and tragically coherent with the world he inhabits.


Claude

Blackman's shooting is rendered as a fusion of absurdity, courage, and annihilation — no single frame owns the scene. The page is the manuscript's most violent paragraph.