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By Jack Joseph Smith

Striding without a smoke Along the much less * than two way drives One would have to think Very structural gallant with gas lantern nights One felt; they wanted you to see the wooden of their insides Even if you didn't know it Their was a courage, a respect For looking back After all : They just wanted you to know, what was on their wall

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Walking narrow drives beneath gas-lantern nights, the speaker finds a structural courage in houses that openly show their wooden interiors and whatever hangs on their walls.

The poem admires the built world for revealing itself rather than concealing its frame. Looking back becomes a form of respect, as if architecture can ask for witness without pleading. What matters in the end is not luxury but disclosure: they wanted you to know what they kept before them.

Claude

Companion to 94: gas lantern nights, wooden of their insides. Their courage, their respect, they wanted you to know what was on their wall.