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By Jack Joseph Smith
Is it not wonderful to go
through life with a broken
neck that you do not know
anything about
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This page turns bodily damage into an existential condition, describing a life carried forward under an injury barely understood.
The poem works because the last phrase changes the injury from a medical fact into a condition of consciousness. It is not just the broken neck that matters, but the ignorance surrounding it.