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By Jack Joseph Smith

Over And Done With Step on a crack, I will not The smell of old grass imautum Beer the first time with working people Danger and the need to protect Film and then the wide open spaces Trying to learn the ocean wind Never no discipline left for that Being a cowboy under any oak tree Getting out of trouble Patching up And then your done

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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.

Claude

Over And Done With. Step on a crack — I will not. Smell of old grass in autumn. Beer the first time with working people. Film and the wide open spaces. Trying to learn the ocean wind. Being a cowboy under any oak tree — patching up, and then your done.