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By Jack Joseph Smith

Glenther, Louise Big time, "we own all of North America, so why buy land" Bobby sat on my floor He did not smoke grass You want to talk about Jews He got along fine He drank that red wine and did not pay ten cents for it She said Gaanish Village was small against Sur Sur She said she saw me with the nutmag on the red wood table having peach oatmeal and Country Club Malt Liguer

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A second Louise draft repeats the Kennedy and land stories while grounding them in Big Sur, food, wine, and the oddly exact textures of remembered domestic life.

Repetition turns memory into revision. Public figures and grand claims keep returning, but nutmag, peach oatmeal, and malt liquor pull the poem toward the sensory details through which the speaker actually remembers Louise.

Claude

A second version headed 'Glenther, Louise' repeats the land boast ('we own all of North America, so why buy land') and Bobby's visit, adding that he 'did not smoke grass' and drank red wine without paying, then has Louise contrast 'Gaanish Village' with 'Sur Sur' and remember the speaker at a redwood table having 'peach oatmeal and Country Club Malt Liguer'.

Here the Kennedy story comes in Louise's own voice ('Bobby sat on my floor'), and the scene narrows from national figures to breakfast. The typed 'Sur Sur' and the brand-name drink make the memory specific and a little comic, the grand claim undercut by the table it was made at.