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By Jack Joseph Smith

Saying that your the same person is difficult, because it does not exist. "Every writer I've heard from dosent smoke cegerattes in Hollywood." People sent him plays so they could have him be there. The bars that had him down in, or on, West Virginia turf out of Pittsburgh were forgotton by Don't look ragged. "When I loved Rocky I was huge and important. Gibby had no where to bring you along." "O.K. you fag, get off the stuff." That's if Gibby through out in San Francisco, "All ya bums whose madness where ye from, the East.

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The speaker questions a claim of remaining the same person, mentions writers in Hollywood, and recalls plays sent to Gibby and drinking in West Virginia and Pittsburgh.

The account of loving Rocky connects Gibby's sense of importance with his inability to bring someone along. Insults and a San Francisco address close the page.

Claude

The page opens with 'Saying that your the / same person is difficult, / because it does not exist' and a quoted remark about writers and cigarettes 'in Hollywood.' It moves through plays sent to Gibby, bars in West Virginia and Pittsburgh, a speaker who 'loved Rocky' and 'was huge and important', a rough 'O.K. you fag, get off the / stuff.', and an address to 'All ya bums' in San Francisco.

Short, broken statements set identity and fame against drink, insult and drift. The quoted voices are coarse and plain, and the author's spellings keep the speech rough. The page ends on a shouted question of origin, 'where ye from, the / East.'