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By Jack Joseph Smith

Young Man And The Sea The only thing we came foor is what is not the same They were not what you call livid, they were buldging from their eyes Ravid would be an easy way to talk about it Blood is coming out of the last of flesh offered to the sea and sun, so their skin is blistered, and comprention is not a try Tongue's suncken, bobbing way from their cracked conoe's as I mystically saw it I'm drinking rum in the neighboorhood, and doing cocane as fact as I can, when I can And it is the Muriel boat lift, and I own my own boat They came aboard, and I lost my boat The clouds are big and pretty in Key West Pissed off as hell, I sware I looked up, And was told I'd have a chance for heaven now

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GPT

The speaker describes injured people at sea, drug use in Key West and the loss of a boat, then receives a handwritten promise of a chance for heaven.

The opening frames the account with The only thing we came / foor is what is not the same, retaining the source spelling foor. Blood is coming out of flesh offered to the sea and sun; the speaker then recalls rum, cocane and losing the boat. After looking up in anger, the speaker reports being told of a chance for heaven now.

Claude

'Young Man And The Sea' is framed by a handwritten opening, 'The only thing we came / foor is what is not the same', then describes people at sea whose eyes are 'buldging', 'Blood is coming out of the last of flesh offered / to the sea and sun', and 'Tongue's suncken' by 'their cracked conoe's'. The speaker is 'drinking rum in the neighboorhood, / and doing cocane as fact as I can', it 'is the Muriel boat lift', 'They came aboard, / and I lost my boat', and after looking up 'Pissed off as hell' he 'was told I'd have a chance / for / heaven / now'.

The title bends Hemingway toward a sea of suffering bodies and a speaker who watches 'mystically' while numbing himself, so pity and self-indulgence sit uncomfortably together. The handwritten frame turns the page into a search for difference and ends on a grace that arrives abruptly and unearned.