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By Jack Joseph Smith

The horror of being more free in Mexico than in the U.S.A. I am esta Along the bar for you Against that world that takes from you: I have found all across the shell of it The way the flowers have of showing gold and the lace of old iron where you came from The mineral is red here against the cliffs So the sea is a color of choice you call in choices - Places where the sand is not solid shoulder's are the best quick to drift are they not, with laughter, often?!? I am able to go there Eninco but I could never leave with you om a rowboat

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GPT

Mexico appears as a place of troubling freedom, gold flowers, red mineral, cliffs, unstable sand, shoulder's, laughter, and choices, where the speaker can arrive alone but cannot depart with Eninco by rowboat.

The shock of being more free in Mexico than in the U.S.A. gives the page its moral charge before it turns to color and texture. Gold flowers, old iron lace, red mineral, cliffs, sand, shoulder's, laughter, and sea make the landscape feel decorative, bodily, and elemental at once. The final refusal of departure with Eninco leaves freedom strangely solitary and unshareable.

Claude

The horror of being 'more free in Mexico / than in the U.S.A.'; Eninco at the border. Flowers show gold and old iron lace, minerals are red, the sea a color of choice. The speaker can go there but could never leave with Eninco in a rowboat.