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By Jack Joseph Smith

The New Wheel In the market Advertures from everywhere Thousands making one stupid about language and theatre Great moment of buying Are a slip of the tongue, as an animal in the wilderness really knows your talking to yourself definately includes him And what is the change Between pretending your rich, or pretending your poor,, when availability... is losing both homes One who sheads his head and looks for shadows began with a need for light Pittsburgh is too European to die outright in And the real old men alone? The mist is to close to wander off through it And so redemption watches Karma grabbing at its species:

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This page attacks consumer performance and class posturing while treating Pittsburgh itself as a haunted market of language, theatre, and survival.

The market here is not just economic; it is theatrical and moral. Buying, pretending to be rich or poor, and speaking to oneself all blur together, while the poem keeps returning to animal instinct, mist, and old men as if the city has an older life beneath commerce. `Pittsburgh is too European / to die outright` gives the page its sharpest turn, turning local observation into historical temperament.

Claude

'The New Wheel' is a churning market-and-city meditation: 'Thousands making one stupid / about language and theatre', the 'Great moment of buying' reduced to 'a slip of the tongue', and a sharp question about class performance - 'what is the change / Between pretending your rich, / or pretending your poor' when 'availability... / is losing both homes.' Its keenest turn, 'Pittsburgh is too European / to die outright in', converts local observation into temperament, before closing on 'redemption watches / Karma grabbing at its species.' The strong-band typed page preserves spellings 'Advertures', 'definately', 'sheads', and the 'availability...' ellipsis; commerce, theater, and instinct blur into one sociology of the city.