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By Jack Joseph Smith

(I frighten women.) A voice: I go crazy with what I can touch. Herion as the center of the earth; doomed to nonexistance, or excited about it. - THE down. Prankster had a hatred for gossip. He heard stories in his brain that mankind didn't love him, No, respect him. He wanted it acknowledged that he deemed his deeds necessary. Now by a passion he was sent after grief flash- ing on his brain the certainty he would die young. He followed it into a crosslegged sit on the sand, from where his mind rose in ability to dispise bur- dens and dismiss them. He looked in the distance and saw the speck of Animal running from the South toward him at the end of the computer wilderness. Along the low hard sand he watched this figure moving untill Animal was near him. Animal watched the black haired fair skin man turn his eyes away. He decided to go over to him, and let his legs go into the slumber of a jog. Through the night Jaugeline had been a rainbow of lights in the clubs of colors oppositely perfected, from the moon. Silver dress and silver hair pass- ing like a transparent ghost within the dens of scotch. Now in the morning her virtue had changed

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Prankster moves from heroin's doomed center, grievance, and death-certainty into noticing Animal's approach and remembering Jaugeline's night-club radiance.

The added phrase THE down sharpens the heroin aphorism into a blunt descent before touch, gossip, doom, and self-justification press against each other. Animal's arrival and Jaugeline's remembered silver image interrupt that inward pressure with two different forms of attention and desire.

Claude

Prankster, wounded by feeling disrespected and gripped by a premonition of dying young, sits cross-legged on the sand until Animal approaches; the scene then shifts to Jaugeline as a glamorous, spectral presence in the clubs, her virtue changed by morning.