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By Jack Joseph Smith

Gypsy Theft It was the first wooden wheel to go It was located on the left rear of the wagon And it was the lead wagon which made the other two behind it feel uncomfortable The responsibility was clear for the man He would go to the farmers home And feel out the most unused shed all which was at final distance through massive spaced fields So he went with his lady laughing and the vegtables were a raw tang sweet as they spoke "Is it not true that everything is blue my wife?" "And we are not sain to the strain, but my mear man and I have conquered lifes" "Yes my love the world sings dusk into blue for you." "My, do you think we will make it in and out, or say you a shotgun may come about?" "Let us pass through the cherry orchard there where first we will be blessed with a redness not of blood." Through the orchard they did go And creeping low

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The man and his wife approach a farmer's shed to obtain a wooden wheel for the lead wagon. Their conversation pairs blue skies and orchard redness with concern that a shotgun could interrupt them.

The couple mixes affection with the risk of theft as they cross the fields and orchard. The revised dusk belongs to the color imagery, while the source gap splits the wife's statement across the page. The title and characterization reflect the writer's language rather than reliable claims about a community.

Claude

'Gypsy Theft' tells how 'the first wooden wheel to go' left the lead wagon short, so the man goes to 'feel out the most unused shed', walking with 'his lady laughing', and their dialogue moves through 'the world sings dusk into blue for you' to 'a redness not of blood', ending 'Through the orchard they did go / And creeping low'.

The poem frames the theft as a tender, almost ceremonial errand; sain, mear and lifes are kept as typed.