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By Jack Joseph Smith

All the great linebackers that didn't play and became street fighters Full back Preston Mc Murry Witman's five and dime The peddler's broken window is up to question Jackie Fields, the champ, tells me as a kid not to fight with those I know I can whip; that way I will never be a bully Card players way to old to be sitting on the front lawn of Lincoln Grammer School No harm no foul Lose your football scholarship and come home and talk religion and politics and drink twenty hours a day The Cobbler throwing the hammer through his own window and going to Inverness, California The difference between whiskey and wine and the ones who drink it A young girl is the same sunlight and the same moon lit night no matter where in the world you are Your childhood immagination is sometimes better the worse off you are Sticking up for Billy Anderson on Mc Murry's front lawn. An Epiphany

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GPT

The writer recalls football players, street fighters, Jackie Fields's advice against bullying, and defending Billy Anderson. Other notes concern drinking, a cobbler's broken window, and childhood imagination.

The writer connects neighborhood memories with rules for conduct, including No harm no foul. The closing note calls standing up for Billy Anderson An Epiphany.

Claude

A typed list of neighborhood memories: 'All the great linebackers that didn't play / and became street fighters', Jackie Fields, the champ, telling the speaker as a kid 'not / to fight with those I know I can whip; that way / I will never be a bully', old card players on the lawn of 'Lincoln Grammer School', and the Cobbler 'throwing the hammer through his own / window'. It ends with 'Sticking up for Billy Anderson on Mc Murry's / front lawn. An Epiphany'.

The page reads like a list of prompts for later scenes, mixing street lore, drinking, and small codes of conduct such as 'No harm no foul'. Two lines rise into aphorism, 'A young girl is the same sunlight and the same / moon lit night' and 'Your childhood immagination is sometimes better / the worse off you are', which gives the plain list a reflective turn.