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By Jack Joseph Smith

167 waiteds o'Dandy was giggling like a madman saying éah, he hes he hes The cops were shaking their heads, as they directed Dandy to their car, as he went laughings’ To nthe limite you will take them Dandy, To the limits of sour dreams when jingle jangle you walk a destany I have made mine Following you in these times of darkness has given my amused nature more than a clowns topsy terby grace, when all others think him unbalanced, When everything is steel blue and the doors are closing, the bottom becomes the m,rcy and I feel reality in the scraping of the dregs, Layghter is kissing you. again, even in your, eahy no one gees, A ha, no one knows the trouble i have seen, No ome knows but the dasy I picked one symmer rynning with the Dandy ame drunk on the hill;. trying my best to make him feel as a chibd, Where off +0 the station again’ Againg He hey eahs Bull shits Jagg offs Why you crazy guya We walked into the police station, with the usual’white lights showing against the pretentiousily dim wallez. Nurphy seated in a glass cagé, and two eyelished girls huddled outside of him covering there bossomsy. with their fanny's in rest on wooden pews, Is it Church now? Let us consercrate the sinners, Whoever éhat might which she be and be not’: Fading blossoms turning slowly from childhood to nothings. Wished upon by slapping fingers, A touch below, woubi have been 80 fines, Don't you know? But = remember, Myrphy, you never let them feel your hell, If soy. hey would have become mothers. I is true you knows Only a faint wish from your blinking eyes would have given them,wishfulnese, It is a wonder you gre not stripped Murphy, .and maybe rubbing your cock back and forth and up and down on the gbass, I meany, what els¢ is there? : You seem so dreary; Could you really care? It's only the second time todays Wishful’ thinking for the everlastings. Today has been a day of battle, I suppose, I pose a new question, and in that same time make a statements Retorical I am, I am tireds,

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AI Interpretation

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O'Dandy tries to flip the whole situation by demanding that the two girls be arrested as prostitutes who were soliciting on Mount Lebanon streets and offering to sign whatever papers are needed.

The move is pure reversal, a way of grabbing the moral language of law and decency and weaponizing it as theater. O'Dandy understands that power often belongs to whoever frames the scene first, even when the frame is absurd.

Claude

Inside the station under the usual pretentiously-dim lights, Murphy is in a glass cage and two girls huddle on a pew; Michael wonders whether Murphy would really care, and mocks that Murphy should be stripped rubbing his cock on the grass instead.