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By Jack Joseph Smith

Lp Pow ts by Bg Thi wy Poot L4old you 5a I' never took a se@ond to gross anyone with a life Not around the world Just across the gobe T never had spirs Red wings But just the oppisite is what 1.S. Eliot says Each time I did something less I wish I would have done something else And to see before it comes true Has only one chance And that would be something That is against a law Excapt for her We YOIcE js a)! You vEEAT. Krow.

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The speaker rejects swagger and regret in the same breath, finally suggesting that true foresight would require stepping outside law except in the case of one woman.

Boots, spurs, and Eliot all get folded into a self-portrait that keeps refusing the expected western posture. The poem is full of second thoughts, but it never settles into apology; instead it keeps testing what action might have mattered. The exception at the end turns the page personal, as if the only justified transgression would be for her.

Claude

I never took a second to cross anyone with a life. T.S. Eliot says the opposite, each time I did something less I wish I would have done something else. Her voice is all you need, know.