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By Jack Joseph Smith
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Hart Street was still quaint for chats upon the
stoops; or over coffie black to creamed at Olivia's
restaurant down the way on into iven Joe:had gone:
on to the folka about the public interest. "You may
’ think her dingy, but she is a darling damsel daring
dreams due -no damn doubt to the public: nightmare;
and all saints were shuned’ or slandered, stripped
to be stilled of spirit or shouted insane-on the-
measure of sick wit before savage *violence:-= until,
until my dear friends, with which of course you take
: no part = the money was sure-on the Bishop's bet of 7
' tributes"
Igbo the day her court had.counted’ as-four she had
said? "The waves before us take me beyond this beach
to an ocean blue-deeper than blackness," While in
. : clamor her soul'had stretched the:bosom of her idea
out onto the porTHy mention that whispers maybe sil=
‘ ence-upon the world space of seas She-with no swell=
ing seen felt the-image-vision playing with-and=in a
belly: bottom of the: Héaven formed’ Mother Earth doing
it again down heres
On the fifth day the motions of Mart Street had been
filled with sounds built up from a murmur into an over=-
ture of question. These:sounds had become one to Jiven
Joe as-a chorus while he had passed through the motions’
Me pewl=
and the sounds had passed through him, d risen