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By Jack Joseph Smith

The Girls Work and war and wining For it never finely fought Strapped and singled outt Further than dust as time The desert and thr knife Is none the less more friendly than an airplane Witch operated by cowards Would never land in Navada to fight the revolution Against the girls with GREEN EYES

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

This page links struggle, war, desert hardness, and cowardice, then ends in a handwritten turn against 'the girls / with GREEN EYES'.

The corrected handwritten ending is sharper than the prior reading. It turns the poem away from general revolution and toward a personal grievance or fascination, while the scan-supported oddities like 'thr knife,' 'Witch,' and 'Navada' keep the page rough.

Claude

Titled 'The Girls', the poem piles up 'Work and war and wining' and desert hardness, judging the 'knife' friendlier than an 'airplane' flown by 'cowards' who would 'never land in Navada / to fight the revolution / Against the girls / with GREEN EYES'. The handwritten close swerves from war rhetoric into private obsession, the rough spellings keeping the voice raw.