Page 93

By Jack Joseph Smith

. Animal and Jaqueline split on’ Christmas? , ae He says what would you like for Christmas, And she - ; says, my mother asked me when, I was four years old ; : 7 what*I would like for Christmas, .and I°said I would like . to have -a nem but, because mine is weousti O41 $510 we ss I can't change your swing sweethearts : : ‘ No need loves I have mone, Don't you lmow that things called ; . always have never begane You must ES to religous meetings. Téll' them a thing or twoee Yes I must be here-too, to see us now going one way and another, The dear of deer; the deer of dear, Simple, I've . ; : never seen a court room of real’ mahogany anywayo cscs o Blessid are thou who work on the bench in Watts. “ 3 . : “Lovely old things. . E , T used to go up alot in the elevators downtown, If the fancy offices would be there, than I-would be a successe : ; / No downfall. . - He laughed ee : She walked out from the boat, Silver heeked, Maybe a . , wind to ghift the reasting stern. Acroos the Marina flimsy . ) with the new highriske appartment concept, Tepmpt me babys ‘ . ° tempt me = but no drowning pleases someday sweet, lifeses- . she started to say alound to herself, but kept to . - the idea of silent walking - the strool of moving sleep. . . : It was jhe last goodnight.

Original Scan

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The page treats parting as a broken exchange of gifts, wishes, and motions, where tenderness survives but can no longer hold two people in the same direction.

Its fragments feel intentionally unstable. Christmas talk, childhood desire, religion, money, and marina imagery all blur into the sense of a relationship already drifting apart, so the emotional truth arrives through discontinuity rather than orderly narrative.


Claude

Parting is rendered as broken exchange — gifts, wishes, and motions that do not quite connect but leave tenderness behind. The page is one of the manuscript's quieter partings.