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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