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By Jack Joseph Smith
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so as a sweet thing can see those black man teeth, They white as snow boyy. even
on your faces I dom t want you to come with mes You ain't ready yet. I don't
mean that bady I just mean when it happens to you, it will be for a good reasons
You know your way arounds why don't you go up to Whily Avenue and hear a little
softness in the tone, and then Listen to some jazze
I like the blues, I sayy walking om, Yes, I like the blues, hard blues, Down
in me, like a drum on my balls, Ann Mavehile and rock and roll and crap games
in the restroom, Crap pitched under the urlnals Catch a falling ster with piss on
it brothers Sure, the man walling the sax between hits on the bar and blowing in
your shouting warss God, I do want to lay down with the wong in his mind, I
liked him,
Red and yellow street cars with winos passing back and forth, but my tie is
tight, Don't think twice about your doublile Michaels You've been here undresseds
You cam see it coming, Can't you? What? All these clubs are filled with ny father’
jukeboxes, I Imow all the ownergs They would sith on me if I walked in now, Alone,
with my suit for a Saturday night journeys Tonight I left everything at home before
I stepped out into blackness. Carnival blackness. tts light sends taiking shadows
beneath the surface of the arte and you stare at their unseen sounds ‘hat guy is
above it all, clang, clang, fuck you trolly man, Laughter form the street slides
its echo across roof shingles and vibrates itself around the wall that has no
entrance, has no exit, and gncourages illusion and reality to intermingle on the
Hills Those with a card that was drawn befow the images were designed, open the
gates and walk the street of something stricken from the minds of the incasts