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By Jack Joseph Smith

It is morning, Sedlin says Come then and let us do what men do And discuss important things, yes let us rise and wake with the greeting sun, tie our ties, strap our boots, and do the things our fathers used to do. Didnt do any thing just got dronk

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The page starts as a masculine call to rise, dress, and inherit the fathers' ritual order, then undercuts it with anticlimax and drunkenness.

Its energy comes from that collapse. The first movement sounds almost ceremonial, full of ties, boots, fathers, and the greeting sun, but the ending drains the script of dignity by admitting that nothing was actually done except getting drunk.