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By Jack Joseph Smith

Near Future Nothing but a big bone after the last animal : slaughtered She looks out there And says it's troubble And she knows behind her back of concrete They are talking down through her veins I guess you have to live the truth But even if she hadn't been down the road All around just another table I think I'd stick with her

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"Near Future" imagines a woman reading trouble in the landscape and in her own body, while the speaker decides that living the truth means staying with her anyway.

The opening bone after the last slaughtered animal makes the future feel stripped to aftermath before the woman even speaks. Concrete and voices moving through her veins give public pressure an intimate, bodily form. The final loyalty is simple but not naive, because it comes after the poem has already admitted how much trouble surrounds her.

Claude

Near Future: nothing but a big bone after the last animal slaughtered. Concrete backs, voices down through veins, but I'd stick with her.