By Jack Joseph Smith
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Old grass, beer, work, danger, open space, cowboy fantasy, and patched-up trouble all lead to a hard finality, as if one chapter of rough living has finally been used up.
The page feels autobiographical in a practical way. It remembers initiation into working life through smell, risk, and the need to survive, ending with the source's blunt `your done` rather than a corrected grammar.
'Over And Done With' is a catalogue of rough initiations - 'Beer the first time with / working people,' 'Danger and the need to protect,' 'Being a cowboy under any oak tree' - that scrolls past like a life remembered in sense-flashes, opening with the superstitious 'Step on a crack, I will not' and 'The smell of old grass imautum.' The list keeps shedding discipline ('Never no discipline left for that') until it arrives at exhaustion: 'Getting out of trouble / Patching up / And then your done.' The kept forms 'imautum' and the colloquial 'your done' keep the recollection unvarnished, and the title frames the whole inventory as a chapter already used up.