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By Jack Joseph Smith

The Old Road He did not take anything He brought wine Well, he did not pay for herb Some have a post office box Well, it you don't ya' don't Stop in your tracks A railroad train can not be understood any more A walk away down the road No one knows how to get lost alone anymore Visual was difficult for him, for all the canyons shown gold For him his fingers were the snatching away of life

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The Old Road moves from wine and unpaid herb to post office boxes, tracks, trains, canyons, and the difficulty of getting lost alone anymore.

The scan-corrected text makes the road feel practical and mystical at once. Ordinary systems like mail, tracks, and trains sit beside canyons and the `snatching away of life`.

Claude

''''The Old Road' -- 'He brought wine / Well, he did not pay for herb.' The railroad train no longer understandable; no one knows 'how to get lost alone anymore.' For him, fingers were the snatching away of life.'''