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By Jack Joseph Smith

is in a gold ovil. He peers cutely; it is something in him he does not understad about how after so many travels he remains just a boy on these moments. There are voices in the outer rooms, the kitchen, the dining room, the card room once a porch still so though in glass. There is particulary a moine from a long man in the card room. He wants to remem- ber old songs he is seventy, but even 30 years back would be fine. The women from the kitchen, the mother and wife whispers in her passing through the rooms "oh yes" or "I can't remembe" very much under her breath. She is meanwhile serving her hosband, who grones over a well made meal, while asking for his pills. He is afflicted with P.D, yet the demure of his eyes show that his mischief has never strayed from the hilt of life.

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The mirror passage continues into household voices, old songs, a meal, illness, and the request for pills.

The travelled man still sees a boy in himself. The closing account of the husband's eyes keeps his mischief present alongside illness and the care provided by his wife.

Claude

Continuing the mirror scene of page 005, the man's reflection sits 'in a gold ovil' and he senses that 'after so / many travels he remains just a boy on these moments.' Voices drift from the kitchen and a card room 'once a porch still so / though in glass'; a seventy-year-old 'long man' wants 'to remem- / ber old songs', while the mother and wife whispers 'oh yes' or 'I can't remembe' and serves a husband who 'grones over a well / made meal' and asks for his pills.

The prose moves room by room, letting overheard phrases and small domestic acts carry the portrait of an aging household. Illness ('afflicted with P.D,') is set against a 'mischief' that 'has never / strayed from the hilt of life', so decline and vitality sit side by side. The handwritten spellings ('ovil', 'grones', 'hosband') give the draft its unpolished notebook texture.