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By Jack Joseph Smith

Portland had wind rained clear Yet with a wing over the rustic for pictures of shade By our international driver The Frenchmen of camera capturing our facade Our truck moved through the street Until we came to a quaint Victorian neighborhood And stopped for stills off-beat Where we didn't act very much like Robin Hood would I had wanted to go to Pine Ridge for historical reasons And frankly I was thankful we didn't get across the line Because the seasons of dely would have been bad dealings If Wyoming would have been the boot we had to shine It felt like, Well I'd go on any deal. But I'm famous And might get caught.

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A Portland photography scene turns toward Pine Ridge, failed travel, Wyoming as a boot to shine, and the speaker's fear that fame might get him caught.

The page mixes documentary wandering with political hesitation. Its camera language and Robin Hood comparison frame the group as self-conscious observers, while the Pine Ridge lines expose the limits of their revolutionary posture.

Claude

The complete 'Governor's Mother' poem renders her as a self-possessed world traveler who stepped out with no lipstick yet with rouge on cheekbones tilt from nature's chisel, set against courthouse steps and the Wounded Knee aftermath.

The poem's final version achieves a dignity for the old woman that the earlier drafts were working toward. 'Humph! A splendid day for sunlit usage' as her only quoted speech is perfect - she belongs to a world where elegance is its own complete statement. The poem frames her as history's survivor in a way that honors rather than satirizes her position.