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By Jack Joseph Smith

56 . for lunch, Jesus H,' Christy newspaper stand in fueking Pittsburgh. Swabbing the halls at Boy's Town Nebraska, (the height of the strueture for unfavered youth, ) Dishwashing, auto parts, ya: name its and now this: rieh man's hell hele.* The factory; not hell, your alive, (But the : ; The sowie Exec etiok § eh 3EA feel g/ess shit oat'en tage of it.) He walked with his ca nogntyen? 5 seeeet! head bent like the thin wire shapes-of metal, ouee— °F/, Peccvrrtny, Sepposlly spe Iren, steel; not'curved eut of wealmeses his: — t r iG pact Breeton. J AcK1% body stayed’ rigged to the sound, like-a pr * y LyAecc- wth FAs req Ove five bet “a: sharp tasking wind, Acteontly wrtehreg gov. In his ear he looked’ inte the mirror, Huge curved’ up mustache, hair getting leng to his: neek bone, “Buffalo Bill} can the Coleneli do suffering without glory? Will, will endure sv the time it takes.) He was cmap Colonel’ had’ hatred for downtown. Lai. He wanted’ out ef it; out of the absurd task ef driving the freeway's five days a.week, The- rn smeg during SRW AE tne -year without’ rain hy 5) pl Pe wind wae thick, It reminded him of Pitter V poe aT eels ‘res? inet &, ae worges Ha could’ feel! it ha Lest{, | \ ‘ Sor thy stu<e ) 1b i) +. hig eyes, and his position made him ‘sicks Nea sty vErdred ” He shad arrived at his place on Hart Street. DW A large house om the ocean plock, where He /

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Colonel's monologue makes work sound like humiliation without glory, turning the daily commute and factory labour into a trap that deforms both body and spirit.

The page is rawer and more profane than the surrounding visionary material. Its force comes from how completely it inhabits frustration, letting ambition, self-disgust, and class exhaustion crowd together inside a single, battered consciousness.


Claude

Colonel's monologue makes wage-work sound like humiliation without glory — the daily commute rendered as quiet erosion of identity. The page is our first sustained interior of one of the older beach men.