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By Jack Joseph Smith

FLETCHER 3 The Father of Missouri is willed The Father from Missouri is wild The Father from Missouri went To OREGON and the father has come Indeed across splendor spilling on the blood gown Yes, aboves, and sometimes below all beginnings AND ENDINGS Thrust them out with fist GRASS We need no sign barrer to catch our tongue's in the splash Lash out the weed for Another salvaged framed The Father again is tired of listening wooden farm He is the Man, and he believes in action No spark on the end of whiskey will ever make him quick to forget He has already moved No cus can crawl or crouch or call For no helplessness exists, when your damn leaning on the seed O, that lousy breed that Don't say it REALISTIC EYES -> A MAN'S WORK Wants to see a lightening struck Just yell sex and make it rhyme And that T.V. don't have antlers like deer that's whispering through your glass... and off MR. Narrow fears the windswept storm Right about sound that Narrow is But wingless for his comprehention FLETCHER Don't bless the safeguard's for flying HE But let your cup run dry AND Touch nothing while Let nature fill it for him Hog cheep is dirt HE But it takes alot of space to plow HE Forget sleep Don't eat meat while at war with MEN Dream about your feet -> HAD A FOOT DREAM ABOUT A FINALLY BUSTED TOE Begat, begin Laughing for youth Turning stones to mud Crow like a wound and then eat it alive And what grows by the bank of the river is where you always were / S I couldn't care less If? you were dead replied the American Eagle And then in whisper on the wind Ever though my master will be you

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GPT

"Fletcher 3" builds a volatile father figure from Missouri through willed wildness, action, whiskey, refusal of helplessness, weather, flight, dirt, meat, river growth, and an American Eagle reply.

The reviewed transcript reads as a live mythic argument over inheritance and masculine action. Its handwritten speaker labels turn the lower passage into a fractured exchange about flight, work, sleep, war, youth, and bodily damage before the American Eagle answers in a whisper.

Claude

An elderly hobo speaker distinguishes his method - going into office buildings where money unnaturally lives - from corner panhandling, then ends with land, a PhD wife, and blood 'from the hobo I used to be.'

The final line makes the entire monologue an origin story: the hobo is not the endpoint of failure but the source of the speaker's blood identity. The internal cancer mentioned in the penultimate stanza, cured somehow, places the PhD wife and the land as a second life earned by the first one's willingness to suffer and move without ceasing.