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By Jack Joseph Smith

I do not mix Cows and steers in slaughter And as a history buff I have counted everyone Hanged black and white by the noose Texas my conception Bucked by five horses into the rolling grass and fenced sawdust But that is my loss Go far back to the needle and print your quilt It is the way it is And you never quiet

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The page moves from slaughter and historical violence into Texas imagery, craft, and unresolved quiet.

The poem joins moral separation, racial hanging, western myth, and quilting into one restless sequence. Its final line refuses closure: the history named here does not become quiet.