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By Jack Joseph Smith

"Another Queen Gypsy King, but this ones tomb is gonna bust some rookies." Animal laughed. "Those cops arn't going to go to jail." "They might want the bottle-Baby, but they could end up in the can." 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 Jauqeline acted out, "he listens to you chomp on words without meat." "Just bang bang anywhere will do," replied Daven- port. "Or boom boom!" exclaimed Animal and Jauqeline in unison again. The Royce rolled on down, and crossing into Santa Monica where the freeway entrance to downtown L.A. strips away to the left were men on scaffolds white washing off a huge painting of a nude women created across the wide cement overhang. 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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Animal, Jauqeline, and Davenport turn the violence into fast comic talk, then the scene shifts toward Santa Monica and a public mural being washed away.

The page links outlaw banter to civic cleanup. Its jokes about cops, uniforms, and boom boom slide into a city image where a nude painting is literally erased from a concrete overhang, keeping the book's satire focused on how bodies are displayed, policed, and removed.

Claude

The banter sharpens into class wit - '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' - and Jauqeline plays the Dragon Lady while they chant 'boom boom' in unison. Then the Royce crosses into Santa Monica past men 'white washing off a huge painting of a nude women,' and the page pivots to the woman artist who, 'three days back,' raised her own scaffold - civic erasure set against private making.