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By Jack Joseph Smith

Ned Patrick of Montana The bullits they wrinkled his side like your waffle- In our modern age away from Asiashit six times with thotle love of it on the right of his side Stealing iron is a big thing in America: It costs nothing to throw away But it was fun to keep your bay With a 45 with people hired to keep it "It's all gone to the junk yard Sam" Crossing the fence was a good solid remark But with back pockets as a pick up truck it can be to bad when ther're bing'in Ya! might have been an American mountain reply that has nothing to do with ghosts. __and the mud-winged and heavy soul, freed of its flesh, The Odyssey A Modern Sequel Nikos Kazantzekis "58 Tonnes With a 39 Hammer" Pittsburgh Bridges is

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GPT

This page mixes bullets, junkyards, iron, ghosts, and a literary citation into a rough American violence poem.

The poem is interested in scrap, residue, and hardness. The Kazantzakis reference at the bottom makes the page feel like it is trying to force epic seriousness through junkyard language and damaged bodies.

Claude

A memorial scrap for Ned Patrick of Montana braided with an epigraph from Kazantzakis's Odyssey and a Pittsburgh bridges note, treating scrap-iron theft, bullet scars, and the 'junk yard Sam' refrain as the same American subject matter as an epic.