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By Jack Joseph Smith

THE LAST TIME I SAW THE BEACH WE WORE our white trowersers ROLLED I WENT out to the Boat Hoose with these Two beautiful women on this misty Afternoon. Tommorow Morning high winds and surf would TAKE it AWAY. They say the pier stayed with that sway; and that Every thing that went under was built back up; but still I have not gone back to see it.

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GPT

The speaker recalls visiting the Boat Hoose with two women on a misty afternoon before high winds and surf took it away. Others report rebuilding, but the speaker has not returned to see it.

The speaker separates the remembered visit from reports after the storm. Nothing in the closing statement explains the absence from the rebuilt place.

Claude

Under the heading 'THE LAST TIME I / SAW THE BEACH', the speaker recalls wearing 'our white trowersers', going to the 'Boat Hoose' with 'these Two beautiful / women', and learning that storm 'surf would TAKE it AWAY.' It ends 'still I have not gone / back to see it.'

The memory is framed by loss and report: the pier is said to have been 'built back up', and the closing rows say only 'still I have not gone / back to see it.' Several handwritten words, including the placement of 'ROLLED', remain provisional.