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By Jack Joseph Smith

Shinning black coal, and Friday Night Touchdowns Flashy Buick's And Olsmobiles Through Farmlands, And Along The road the spectrums of a two headed calf their owners eyes strange in celebration of their mindless power The Last of The Indian warrior's Their wives weaving out the endings of their magic on their lifelong Looms Traditors to the American Western movie,

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GPT

The page links coal, cars, football, the two-headed calf, and the fading Indian world in a bitter vision of American spectacle.

Its imagery is public and ceremonial, but never celebratory. What matters is how rural display, industrial glamour, and western mythology all collapse into `mindless power,` leaving the old magic only in the wives' labor and in what is being lost.


Claude

A compact lyric of shining black coal, Friday night touchdowns, flashy Buicks and Oldsmobiles, the two headed calf, and the last Indian warriors wives weaving magic endings on lifelong looms.