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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker says modern art hides something, compares Carol with Gibby's mother, and recalls telling both women to work. Gibby sees one woman as lovely and the other as ugly, but says the distinction meant nothing at first glance.
The work argument ends with the claim that Gibby was political. Later fragments mention Rocky, Mexico, people from the same place on a plane, and someone flattening a dress in a cab. Unread words prevent identifying the people or reconstructing the cab conversation.
After a note that in painting we find modern art hiding rather than showing, the narrator says Gibby saw of Carol and his mother that 'the one / was lovely and the other / ugly'. A quoted speaker recalls telling them both to go to work, and they thought 'I was a lyar cause / it didn't seem through / their minds that Gibby / was political.' Fragments follow about 'Rocky by-by in Mexico,' people who 'had been from / the same place', and a cab ride in which someone 'flatened her / dress and said'.
The page sets appearance against what is concealed, first in art and then in how people are judged. The quoted speech is plain and defensive, and the author's spelling 'lyar' keeps the spoken voice. The lower rows carry several unread words, so the Mexico and cab fragments are kept as fragments rather than joined into a story.