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By Jack Joseph Smith

To save the fix he had for the used cars, was life settl- ing down in what seemed most important to life here. If there were only bars and car lots (he hoped for a new one) and if in the bars he would have to speak, and thus humble, Then to be a monk was to assemble oneself in the mist of the flat spaced along He torned a corner "Corn Beef" Reality is Shakespere in Chicago, The speaker from a squad car sounder a muffled tone of WUMBERS Saying persons to capture for what. (Food and women; no change.) He went on walking as a stranger who remembers himself

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The walker thinks about used cars and bars, passes a Corn Beef sign and hears a muffled squad-car speaker. The page ends with a stranger remembering himself.

The walker links settling down with speaking, humbling himself and being a monk. He hears the squad-car speaker mention capture, then walks on as a stranger who remembers himself.

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The handwritten passage weighs 'bars and car lots', imagines that 'to be a monk / was to assemble oneself', and then the figure 'torned a corner "Corn Beef"' with 'Reality is Shakespere in Chicago,'.

A squad-car speaker sounds 'a muffled tone of WUMBERS', and the parenthesis '(Food and women; no change.)' sums up the street. The page ends with the figure walking 'as a / stranger who remembers himself'.