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By Jack Joseph Smith

Preperations are being made for the train. The cats will go to the streams. The dogs will go to farms along with the furnature. The wine will go to the fishermen, while it is known that the canning will be stolen. The paintings will go to Los Angeles, but the books will be packed. I will take what is on my back; my wife Jo will have her long cotton and short tweed. And as we have never bought anything, the house will be sold out from under our feet. In Western Oregon it is autum time stretching to still the Willimatte Valley with the Willimatte River twisting long through the farms. For the moment, sometimes moments that consider life- times, John Donne sees the coastal range, rich with Douglas Fur that likes mist to be distant rather than on life for work and money. Who is that thing or being who makes thought without form? The land from what has happened in the turned crop fields and the gardens of women and the orchards airplane, drug, and religious people see streight lines curve

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AI Interpretation

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The narrator prepares to leave by train, assigning possessions and animals to different destinations. A description of western Oregon returns to John Donne and the valley's fields and orchards.

The narrator treats departure as the distribution of a household, then shifts to the landscape and questions thought without form. The names and claims belong to the literary account rather than verified personal history.

Claude

Typed prose about leaving: 'Preperations are being made for the train.' The cats, dogs, wine, canning, paintings and books are each assigned a fate, 'the house will be sold out from / under our feet', and the page ends mid-sentence with 'people see streight lines curve'.

The inventory of what goes where gives the departure a calm, almost ritual tone; the passage is unfinished.