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By Jack Joseph Smith

151! meom the morning after our nighttime tampering with deaths He he, he laughed way within againg You tell them, if you like the story so mucti? Which part should I begin with? Any part you want, ass holes’ You can begin, with what you think is a beginning and go to an endings Or yoy can begingitith what you think is an ending and go to a: beginning, Either way, it désentt make any fucking difference, and we arn't go ing to know anymore when your finished, than we 2 nows’ I wake yp in the morning in a white hospital bed, ewith my head ripped mostly off; and I receive a note from a stetlized n,ree, The note was from Mister o' Dandy, and it read, that's what you get for kissing my Honeys! Well Dendy, it was-worth its She was fine and softs' Shut the fuck ups’ Just being honest Dandy®’. Sliyt the fuck ups Tveould have-ripped you in half, when I marched down the hospital hall and found your head’ behind a newspapers I saw'you. comings I still could have ripped at that white forhead and made-it bleed Dandy, made it bleeds He-hey you didn! te’ Youxeout of your mind 0'Dandys. ; He hes. Z Made-it bleed. madeit bleéd, made it bleed, repeated Beaver over and over in the Backgrounds .

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The joking hardens around the hospital aftermath of the crash, with Michael describing O'Dandy's jealous note about kissing my Honey and both men replaying the fantasy of making each other bleed.

The page is funny in a jagged way, but jealousy and near-death are sitting right under the banter. Beaver's chanting in the background makes the whole thing feel ritualized, like the group is enjoying violence by repeating it in words.

Claude

Michael tells the hospital-bed story of waking with his head ripped mostly off, receiving a note from O'Dandy reading that's what you get for kissing my honey, and Beaver repeating made it bleed made it bleed in the background.