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By Jack Joseph Smith

The Moment Sending more uno mas than a dog's bone; outfitting, on the street,, or on the dock, or in house A simposium of time, not just walking off, but gone as well, away, so that all is taken apart This day we do not stoop our ear, or show our window tongue,, to anyone; as we become a way to wind up for tomorrow Seeing is simple when your stoned, it just leaves,, goes away, refuses to be a part of you anymore Once again; this time truth won't tie you into a knot; We watched it all and Adam swallowed it instead Lately she was standing there waiting for the flower, The bragging says I have power and it places me alone So many without a place; the whole world on call Destitute and true as a drum beat that has sank, but for this sound that won't come back; It's not the bitch or the bastard your coming from. when your dying from love and addiction.

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This draft of 'The Moment' repeats the poem's movement through intoxicated perception, Adamic myth, isolated power, destitution, and the final collapse of love into addiction.

The verified transcript makes this page read as another clean revision state rather than a broken OCR duplicate. The repeated draft structure emphasizes the writer's effort to settle one persistent cluster of images.

Claude

A third near-identical state of 'The Moment', distinguished mainly by a closing period after 'addiction.' that the earlier states leave open. The poem again threads intoxicated vanishing ('Seeing is simple when your stoned, it just leaves'), Adamic myth ('Adam swallowed it instead'), and lonely power ('The bragging says I have power and it places me alone') into its destitute ending. The minute change at the last line shows a writer still settling the final breath of a poem he has typed more than once.