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By Jack Joseph Smith

Saying that you're the same person is different, because it does not exist, "even writer prepared from flower shop, cigarettes in Hollywood." People sent him plays so they could show him be there. the bars that had him down in, or on, West Virginia turn out of Pittsburgh were forgotten by caskfulls. "When I loved Rocky I was huge and important. Gibby had no where to bring cry along." "OK, you fag, get off the stuff." That's if Gibby threw out up in San Francisco, "all of ya bugs whose madness shorts, where y' from, the East."

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AI Interpretation

GPT

This page ties sameness and difference to region, performance, reputation, and insult, pushing Gibby through Hollywood, West Virginia, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco.

The corrected opening makes identity unstable before the geography and bar-scene framing take over. What had looked like loose fragments now reads as a map of scene, status, and drifting masculine performance.


Claude

Sibby passed around between Hollywood and West Virginia, sent plaid so people could have him 'up there,' shooed with 'Boy, you bug, get off the / stuff.'