By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The poem mocks respectable culture for failing to portray earthy countercultural life honestly.
Social prefection is set against Hippy trips, so polished public ideals are already in conflict with something messier and more grounded. The speaker insists money is not the real obstacle to making a good movie, which shifts blame onto the habits and distortions of the people involved. The comparison between South America and Hollywood cocaine turns the critique sly and dirty, with sugar... making the glamorous side look weaker than the earthly one.
An untitled typed poem claiming 'Social prefection goes against Hippy trips / because they are earthy', and that it is not money that keeps hippies from making 'a real good movie about themselves' but the way they work 'when in South America', which 'makes Hollywood cocaine look like sugar...'.
The poem sides, half jokingly, with the earthy counterculture against polished social ideals and the film industry. Its punchline turns on drugs as a measure of authenticity, so Hollywood's glamour looks tame beside the real thing. The trailing ellipsis gives the boast a sly, conspiratorial wink.