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By Jack Joseph Smith

, 159 hei The patty wagon pulled up in front of the station, and Murphy stood up and began his speech, The great Fasist movement has begun, We can see it’ climbing, The doors of the Batty wagon swung opery and below me my eyes wandered over the faces-of five or six bellied policemans Hitlers: boy's went’ pack to Poland to cut the generals down for whispering, and they lost their-chance for Russias Tonight you have come to us, and lost your chance for tickets, Foolsg Twelve-less scarred citizens are most likely driving the streets tonight, because of your alarmist procediwes, This can not be tollerateds A boy jew aaved, ig twelve>nscarred’ men thinking? You there lusentent, When is the last time i you polished’ your badge? ‘My great moment has: come, At this very moment, 1 have become the Irish Christ; and ‘will ima step, surrender my soul to rybbishs’ Are you ready for-my décention? Guide-me in my flight, angles of the dregs,. Musphy-flapping»his arma; and taking off from the back of the patty wagom and soring approximently five feet downy body extended and face first, into the streets) The cops seperated as he went between them, and gathered him up as he yelled? : Insanity is-a:pin cushion, with upside dom pins! Murphy looked’ a 1ittlé loose; but I noticed his eyes streighten as we;walked into barren walls and Benches, The station, Small corridors of park headquartera,. Catch a moon beam desk mar and whisper to your soul, These dirty bastard kids were trying to KALE Sures"That's all there is to ite On the way in Murphy let’ me know that he did it, and saids Stay with it, Iwill, I had saids

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With O'Dandy back quickly on bail and the police unwilling to press charges themselves, the men are released into the night joking about shame, snakes, Ireland, and still being alive while the injured boy's concussion hangs over the hearing to come.

The release does not clear anything; it just restores the group's bantering surface. What lingers is the gap between institutional routine and the fact that someone may be seriously damaged offstage.

Claude

Inside the station Murphy confesses privately that he did it and tells Michael to stay with it; the narrator flickers back to awareness just long enough to ask O'Dandy to get them out tonight, which he does in two hours with cash.