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By Jack Joseph Smith

As his dress changes we watch a vegtable grower, a barn builder, a meat cutter. Now we are on the dog continuing slowly away from the man in his gate. The dog is sniffing toward the sound of an irrigation dam, that we find ourselves swinging largely about to embrace in the scene, as we then clutch to look back over the good dog right up against the man's thoughts. We are way im the woods. There is always Moon. The sounds and the clouds are mystical. We are alone. There is no pavement on the road that comes im to this place of work. There is only a thinking among the machines;, they but shake with mumble as all other workers finished with action. Still im the set we cut under the mill. Our character is flat under a turn of the century boiler blowing it down, and the Earth trembles. He climbs out from the sawdust heading back. quick to the boiler tower. There we see him running water valve level and drinking fifth's of red wine. He opens the huge grates. The fire is full as hell. He laughs. Takes a ring of keys off a stammer nail and walks down through the key punch cat walks among the beneath of the simple streams making music a jingle until he sits like a flash reminding us of a tode stool.

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A man's changing dress becomes a montage of vegetable growing, barn building, meat cutting, the dog's movement toward an irrigation dam, and work under a turn-of-the-century mill boiler.

The page treats labor identities as visible costume changes, then moves into machinery and fire. The mill boiler, keys, catwalks, wine, and tode-stool image make work feel cinematic, dangerous, and almost ritualized.

Claude

Dooling is flat under a century-old mill boiler, running water, drinking wine, opening furnace grates, and walking catwalks with a ring of keys, sitting like a toadstool.

The mill interior is rendered with the same camera attention as the river landscape - the sawdust, the boiler tower, the key punch catwalks, the simple streams making music. Dooling's placement inside this century-old machine while drunk, laughing at the full fire, establishes him as the collection's primary figure of dangerous, committed, performative labor.