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By Jack Joseph Smith

Like glass and iron fit for a front door, why not leave it all up to wood We just walked up and shattered the mansion,. and we knew we were within our rights, cause there wern't any trees around it; how amusing it was with our sleg hammers,. laying all about and lifting wine, cause even if there were trees, we would have left them alone, so to have axes,. would have been a misplaced thought Possibily the best thought of all, when we know in America, revolution is a peaceful thing, and your hitch'en in Texas and see willows, so you cut the gray in the bark and eat the white Back to a thousand towns and fifty cities, who cares if your sapping

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A gleeful act of breaking a mansion becomes a crooked revolutionary statement that spares trees, mocks property, and ends in roadside survival.

Glass, iron, and wood are not just building materials here; they become a way of sorting what deserves force and what deserves restraint. Sledge hammers and lifted wine make the destruction feel half riot and half feast. "In America, revolution is a peaceful thing" reads as deeply sardonic, especially beside the Texas willow scene where bark becomes something chewed, medicinal, and necessary.

Claude

A gleeful, crooked revolution poem that sorts materials by what deserves force: 'glass and iron' versus 'wood,' as the speakers 'walked up and shattered / the mansion' and 'knew we were / within our rights, cause there wern't / any trees around it.' The destruction is half riot, half feast - 'sleg hammers,. laying / all about and lifting wine' - and trees would have been spared, so 'axes' 'would have been a misplaced thought.' The sardonic thesis 'in America, revolution / is a peaceful thing' sits beside roadside survival in Texas, where you 'cut / the gray in the bark and eat the white,' ending 'who cares if your sapping.'