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By Jack Joseph Smith

Like glass and irom 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 its; how amusing it was with our sleg hammers,. laying all about and lifting wine, cause were even if there 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 @ 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

Allegory of American revolution as sledgehammering a mansion built of glass and iron where no trees stand, so no axes are needed. Wine is lifted while willows are sapped for their white bark; peaceful destruction framed as native right.