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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 Asia hit six times with totle love of it on the right of his side Stealing iron is a big thing in America: It costs nothing too through 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 too bad when they'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 Kazantzakis "58 TONNES With A 39 HAMMER" Pittsburgh Bridges

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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

Titled for 'NED Patrick of Montana,' this page weaponizes a homely image - bullets that 'wrinkled his side like your waffle' - into an American mythology of scrap and damage, where 'Stealing iron is a big thing in America,' the dumped pile goes 'to the junk yard Sam,' and shotgun-guarded fences make theft a sport. The borrowed lines from Kazantzakis's 'Odyssey A Modern Sequel' about the 'mud-winged and heavy soul, freed of its flesh' and the circled '58 TONNES With A 39 HAMMER' note on the Pittsburgh bridges yoke this junkyard violence to a deliberately epic register, as if scrap iron and waffle-iron wounds were the proper raw material of modern epic.