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By Jack Joseph Smith

LOME LAND ANARCHIST "All federal provisions taking effect after December thirty one, nineteen seventy one, do not apply to Oregon." I ain't had no more trouble with any kind a' livestock thenn' I had with pigs. One time we was attempt'en to get a load off the GOD DAMNED wagon and this pig just wouldn't take to mov'in. Climed I over the side, came up behind thee son-of-a-bitch, and took an jammed that tail right up it's ass. Doo ya think there was a movement? Hell no. So I goes a' back over dat railingling An'd comes back round to the front of th'a sonna bitch with an iron bar just picked up and beat that pig over thee snout untill it squealed isee badd I get fraid of ff losing my profits. Sometimes a man's must, got to sit things out I guess, even it's for a hog. Any size dead set grain hauler Owner of your own truck Knower of great gears Believer in axel balance Feeler of the big wheel! While he has family That still moves wood with wood Great field burner Turner of gold horizon Into black ground

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"LOME LAND ANARCHIST" pairs an Oregon legal exemption with a rough livestock anecdote and a catalog of rural mechanical identity.

The page makes anarchism sound practical, local, and bodily rather than abstract. The pig story is deliberately crude rural problem-solving, followed by a list that turns truck ownership, gears, axel balance, field burning, and black ground into a working creed.

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The page opens with an Oregon exemption declaration from December 31, 1971, followed by a dialect monologue about a stubborn pig and then a catalog-poem portrait of the Lome Land Anarchist: grain hauler, truck owner, field burner, gold horizon turner.

The pig story earns its place as the collection's folk realism - a rural problem solved by brute practicality, told in thick dialect. Its placement next to the anarchist catalog is deliberate: both figures work outside comfortable civic norms, one through necessity and the other through ideology. 'Turner of gold horizon into black ground' is one of the collection's most vivid compressed images.