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By Jack Joseph Smith

SASHATCHEWAN Fast Cars Each had a way of looking through junkyards A piece there, and a place, that would give you gone Nothing to brag about, when all of your songs, and your deeds too; took you way into the air ENEMIES all OVER TOWN touching your car They used to tell girls to leave them alone, cause shotgun was not their problem So following their creed There was not a women, when I kept it at one hundred and sixty I remember it REMOVING monscience out of staying alive About it being good, look under the hood

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This page links car culture to risk, bravado, threat, and survival, treating speed as both thrill and damage.

The tone is rough and unsentimental. Junkyards, songs, deeds, the side note about enemies touching the car, and the threat around women and weapons all collapse into a memory of motion that barely stays alive.

Claude

A second 'Fast Cars,' headed by the handwritten place-name 'SASHATCHEWAN,' that turns the speed-memoir toward menace. It opens in salvage culture -- 'Each had a way of looking through junkyards / A piece there, and a place, / that would give you gone' -- where parts are the currency of escape. The side annotation 'ENEMIES all / OVER TOWN / touching your car' (a legible handwritten addition per scan review) makes the machine a target. The bravado hardens around exclusion: 'They used to tell girls / to leave them alone, / cause shotgun was not their problem,' so 'There was not a women, / when I kept it at / one hundred and sixty.' The handwritten 'REMOVING' (replacing a struck 'keeping') yields 'REMOVING monscience / out of staying alive,' an admission that survival meant discarding conscience -- the typed 'monscience' is preserved verbatim. It closes on the deflating proverb 'About it being good, look under the hood.' The capitalized handwritten heading and insertions are preserved as scan-backed.