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By Jack Joseph Smith

1. For youth. You preceive a different action. Getting a ship and Wall Street. It is the same game with different stops. This is one year from how to tie a knot to aquiring land. Intentional misunderstanding is not new. The beginnings of January was drinking Vocka and Gin off San Diego s Sunset Cliffs. A big flat house houndred yeards for the cliffs. I WOULD WALK A LITTLE dog down a steep path to beach and feel at home. Being to drunk for the sunrise, I would see it go down. The cliffs burned with their yellow. Walking up there would be crevices of rust red. It looked like iron ore from Pennsylvania, but it sure was not. Times watching the sun come down over the west were the end. Shaking ones head is walking away from that big part of seeing. San Diego certainly no bigger than Chinnee.

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The page reflects on youth through ships, land, drink, cliffs, and sunset, turning San Diego into a place of initiation and ending.

It is striking how the page keeps pairing large systems with personal sensation: Wall Street and ships, knots and land, cliffs and sunrise. The prose treats drunkenness and landscape as modes of education. Sunset Cliffs becomes not just a location but a place where perception itself is tested.

Claude

Section '1.', a prose opening that frames youth as perception, 'You preceive a different action', and equates 'Getting a / ship and Wall Street' as 'the same game with different / stops', a year's arc 'from how to tie a knot to aquiring / land'. The body then drops into sensory memory of San Diego's Sunset Cliffs: drinking 'Vocka and Gin', a 'big flat house houndred yeards' off, walking 'A LITTLE dog down a steep path', too drunk for the sunrise so seeing 'it go down', the cliffs burning yellow with 'crevices of rust red' that 'looked / like iron ore from Pennsylvania, but it sure was not'. It ends flat and deflating, 'San Diego certainly no bigger than Chinnee.' Source spellings 'preceive', 'aquiring', 'Vocka', 'houndred yeards', 'Chinnee' are kept as written.