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By Jack Joseph Smith

do with the conversations, O'Dandy had left about two weeks ago for Los Angeles, I thoughts Before he had left he had said to me@y as we walked from a tavern he had tailed me to; I'th headed for the city of ein jagg off} If you think you've got the guts to join me, my address will be, O'Dandy; Santa Monica’ beach. : So you are going to take it all the ways I'don'+ lmnow what the fuck you are talking about, he had said with black eyes and lots of, eahs, inbetween his words, How has-your year been Dandy? Perfect; T laughed, standing thete looking down at my sad girl’ with fading dreams, It was wrong for me to use her this ways But was I really? We were only natural together in a time when we both needed to beg Lost, Never- in a danty dream did we let wander our selves away to a smaller path, A path where we couldn't be seen;'.Time immortals’. Why ‘ must everything seperate for each to see it? My eyes are covered with mystery and I can't commynicate any longers T just want to remember a last tone of song in my leav inge | Hello my name is, while bah I aaid insides Going on the road, huhi Yesy it's me goirg on the long lonesome road; The prince: in the bottle is being cast , to the seas’ I'see the island coming nearer, The sound of drums is overpowering in my : heads’ The bottle turns; and I am upside downy with my eyes blinded by the sung Turquoise patterns-wind their way in my mind and beautiful girls are dancing in a world beyond colors! 0; how I wish I were theres In the morning the sun will grab my heart and I shall sweat this booze out of my livers I am definately getting higher, and I think I will have anouthers’ Once I felt a windy day follow me and leave me as I crossed

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Drunk on brandy and memory, Michael watches faces blur at the party, recalls terrifying rapids in Canada with his father, and measures his present disorientation against that older moment of danger, safety, and held-in emotion.

The childhood river memory gives the drunken room a deeper emotional undertow, tying present drift to an earlier lesson about danger and restraint. The page keeps asking whether being safe has ever really meant being at peace.


Claude

Before leaving O'Dandy has said he is headed for Santa Monica beach; Michael laughs standing there looking down at his sad girl, refuses the dainty path, and drops into an island vision of turquoise and beautiful girls dancing in a world beyond color.