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By Jack Joseph Smith
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We have no stream in/Sorry,’no fishing, certainly, To 5 EE thing 4,
no hunting left; no lost in the woods, no first time, No places Lee
a loss of stories Never CeEW
No street fights, no bugle on the born, no cross step, the dgnc£ ys
our giving away are our loves to leave, fone as a the shaman alone
we knew, away like that shank in a & fight, it has left forscore,
down as if not a shgfider knows a drum; this fire has no form,
as if it were.all by yourself you ever thought, when better is
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known, for just ‘about all of us read the masters eithef before
or during our marches and wanderings while this killing time has
throh us as a cast, tell abled and romanticiged as lost, Not so
kindly and further than any memory still alive has traveled;
; l this counténg of thy blessings, this wondering why our minds
shee our graveyards and poet le che stone, that we know the dunrerencs/
between the cross and alist and love the choice; scattered cl
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leave alone the wind or its flower, and maezet of us ase children left
to grow aloe qawe=ewn, alone like our mothers and fathers too,
who take this task, atid fight listening to the dreamers we are,
not become, given, a birth.oo
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