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By Jack Joseph Smith
Forget
It was a shrug
A meanless gesture
A way out of things
Or a way in
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
GPT
This page reduces forgetting to a shrug, treating it as a 'meanless' gesture and a possible route either out of things or into them.
Its force comes from how spare it is. The poem refuses to dramatize forgetting; instead it treats it as posture and motion, while the source spelling 'meanless' gives the abstraction a rough, typed immediacy.