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By Jack Joseph Smith

Ado “another Queen Gypsy King, but this ones tomb is gonna bust some rookies," Animal laughed. "Those-cops arn't going to go to jain." , "They might want the bottle-Haby but they could end up in the~cans" . With his turned up smile Animal went on saying, "you can skin a pig for your table-but you can't take a cop out of uniform unless he wants to be-in your closit." Taking on the accent and finger motions of the: Dragon Lady Jaugeline-acted out, "he listens to you chomp on words without meat" "Just bang bang anywhere-will do," replied Daven= : ports j "Or bomir boon!" Exninee and Jaugeline:in unison againg ‘ , The-Royce rolled on down, and crossing into Santa: Monica where-the-freeway entrance to downtown leds strips ‘away to the left were-men on scaffolds white: washing off a huge-painting of a nude women created’ across the wide cement overhangs Three-days ‘back in time-during the- late: blackness of early morning a women artist had set up her own swing platformed scaffolding. She ‘had finished her

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Back in the city, the mood turns satirical again as Animal, Jaugeline, and Davenport bounce from outlaw talk into a scene about public art, censorship, and the policing of bodies.

The page feels transitional in a good way. It links the earlier violence to a different kind of civic control, where even a nude mural gets erased once it stops serving commerce.


Claude

Back in the city, satire takes over as Animal, Jaugeline, and Davenport bounce between venues. The page is comic recovery after the meadow.