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By Jack Joseph Smith
Hart Street was still quaint for chats upon the
stoops; or over coffie black to creamed at Olivia's
restaurant down the way on Main and Jiven Joe had gone
on to the folks about the public interest. "You may
think her dingy, but she is a darling damsel daring
dreams due no damn doubt to the public nightmare;
and all saints were shuned or slandered, stripped
to be stilled of spirit or shouted insane on the
measure of sick wit before savage violence:- until,
until my dear friends, with which of course you take
no part - the money was sure on the Bishop's bet of
tributes."
Into the day her court had counted as four she had
said; "The waves before us take me beyond this beach
to an ocean blue deeper than blackness." While in
clamor her soul had stretched the bosom of her idea
out onto the rolling mention that whispers maybe sil-
ence upon the world space of sea. She with no swell-
ing seen felt the image-vision playing with-and-in a
belly bottom of the Heaven formed Mother Earth doing
it again down here.
On the fifth day the motions of Hart Street had been
filled with sounds built up from a murmur into an over-
ture of question. These sounds had become one to Jiven
Joe as a chorus while he had passed through the motions
and the sounds had passed through him. THE PEOPLE had risen