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By Jack Joseph Smith

Louise She said we own all of North America Buy land would be dia metric Bobby sat on my floor He did not smoke grass You wnat to talk about Jews He got along fine He drink that red wine and not pay ten cents for it CAVIAR She said Gaanish Village Was small against Big Sur Even though she knew about the same amount of people in either place

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Another Louise draft repeats the Bobby Kennedy and land stories while setting Gaanish Village against Big Sur and insisting on their comparable human scale.

The poem keeps testing large claims against small communities. The marginal CAVIAR and the ten-cent wine memory add class texture, while Louise's comparison refuses to let celebrated places become abstractions detached from their people.

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A third 'Louise' version restates the North America claim, calls buying land 'dia metric', repeats Bobby's visit with the typed 'You wnat to talk about Jews', and has Louise say 'Gaanish Village Was small against Big Sur' though both held about the same number of people; the handwritten word 'CAVIAR' stands in the right margin beside the wine lines.

This version is the most reasoned of the three: Louise's comparison insists on the human scale of a celebrated place. The marginal CAVIAR, set against wine drunk without paying 'ten cents', sharpens the class joke underneath the Kennedy anecdote.