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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
A casino worker rigs an explosive on a plane. The Gibbon pulls it out by its wire as the pilot circles back, then drags Lester down and proposes playing ball.
The writer moves from sabotage to a fast physical confrontation. The handwritten ending adds Lester and the invitation to play ball to the typed plane scene.
Typed scene notes set up sabotage: 'A timing device set on the dust cropter plane', 'Malace by a very strange Casino worker', and the pilot 'Detroit George' circling back until 'The Gibbon smuggely rips the explosive / by its wire from the plane.' A handwritten continuation adds 'Drags Lester down / and says "ok pal let's / play ball."'
The page is written as a sequence of one-line beats, closer to a shooting outline than to verse, with each sentence moving the action a step. The typed danger ends in 'to be blown to pieces', and the handwritten close turns that tension into a flat, tough-guy invitation to 'play ball'.