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By Jack Joseph Smith

Cindy, Beautifully tragic LEAVING Flowers of Rotodendron At the door of her exit, A man following, wabbling in the Late afternoon. Mellow though in his drunkenness and loss of possibly three days sleep, They kiss by A car at the curb of a brick laid street. The landscape and homes are of ivy and a more redish brick, They are the American English upper middle class, Her smile while Leaving in the car is of a graceful loving, which means she is wise. A women of this world, who's instinct has not only thought About but had to deal with THE Abstract Back in the home this man now cut down by it, that has the Ability to make people smile At his madness, he is standing above in the delicate livingroom of his parents home, looking at himself in the mirror (the frames of the glass

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This page frames a classed departure scene as both romantic and tragic, then turns it into a mirror scene of self-scrutiny.

With `Cindy`, `Beautifully tragic`, ivy, brick, and the `American English upper middle / class` all clearer, the prose reads less like loose description and more like a social study. The return to the parents' living room and the mirror keeps desire tied to shame and self-consciousness.

Claude

A longer prose study of the American English upper middle class — a couple kissing by a car on a brick street, the woman's `self loving` smile, and the man `now cut down` standing in his parents' hallway staring into the mirror. The page sets up the book's central mirror-and-class motif.