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By Jack Joseph Smith

LOME LAND ANARCHIST "All federal provisions taking effect after December thirty one, nineteen seventy one, do not apply to Oregon." I ain't had no more trouble with any kind a' livestock thenn' I had with pigs. One time we was attempt'en to get a load off the GOD DAMNED wagon and this pig just wouldn't take to mov'in. Climed I over the side, came up behind thee son-of-a-bitch; and took an jammed that tail right up it's ass. Doo ya think there was a movement? Hell no. So I goes a' back over dat railinging An'd comes back round to the front of th'a sonna bitch with an iron bar just picked up and beat that pig over thee snout untill it squealed soo badd I get fraid! off' losing my profit. Sometimes a man's must, got to sit things out I guess, even it's for a hog Any size dead set grain hauler Owner of your own truck Knower of great gears Beliver in axel balance Feeler of the big wheel! While he has family That still moves wood with wood Great field burner Turner of gold horizon Into black ground

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Under LOME LAND ANARCHIST, a source quotation about federal provisions precedes a dialect account of forcing a pig to move. The speaker then describes a grain hauler, machinery and a field burner changing the horizon from gold to black.

The speaker relates profit and equipment to acts of force against an animal and the land. The quotation and monologue belong to the work; they do not establish legal rules or an event in the author's life. Canceled and faintly doubled type leaves some punctuation uncertain.

Claude

'LOME LAND ANARCHIST' opens with a quoted claim that federal provisions after 1971 'do not apply to Oregon', then a dialect monologue about a stubborn pig beaten 'over thee / snout', and ends with portraits of a grain hauler and a 'Great field burner / Turner of gold horizon / Into black ground'.

The page pairs anti-government talk with a brutal farm story told in exaggerated dialect; the quoted legal claim is a character's, not checked fact.