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65 4 (1948: Art and Third Grade) Closely observed realities gain ground over religious and classical subjects The real have a hard-edged horizon near the middle Not much to balance one at a time but together extremely uncertain as resolution vertiginous All kinds of smart alignments and blind pairings Earliest of those purely observed what I felt only myself see by the third grade was meat in the butcher shop pig’s feet the skins looked like my seat partner’s hand and I felt this sadness for her she was ugly and she wasn’t supposed to be being white it was my secret that I could see it as meat and supposed to be s’pose to be really looked at 66 iv (not in the Folkways Collection) A single voice this stray singing, the vocal line of an assembled unthinking in the night of prison-farm day, from which the eerie anarchy of it all derives a solitude. see d’ blindt-ness step out d’ way weren’t nothin’ there, but somebody step away ’n I cud sing all outsite m’self ...

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