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By Jack Joseph Smith

Adem and Eve You know that place, that rib Mine to be more attractive than his first When your dying one is the Bible A shout in the universe The first one Today the transcendance of a lung lost to us a species Not far from the birth in marriage They are saying he is gone There slightly I carry While others watch as friends and family Help is a bow gracious without a hand The glimmering shades between light and shadow Make me as a queen now As if I did not know my mind as thou Before the caring

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

"Adem and Eve" restages the rib, Bible, transcendence, lung, species, marriage, family, hand, light and shadow, queening, mind, and caring amid heavy handwritten marginal pressure.

The page now reads as a stable typed poem surrounded by an active revision field. The marginal notes amplify the Greek wrestler and not-done motifs, while the body keeps returning to origin, relationship, and the difficulty of knowing one's own mind.

Claude

Adam and Eve III. You know that place, that rib — more attractive than the first. The scrawled marginalia (wrestler, sow, etc.) is louder than the typed text here. Not far from the birth in marriage. Help is a bow gracious without a hand. Glimmering shades between light and shadow. Make me as a queen now, as if I did not know my mind as thou, before the erring. The handwritten annotations nearly overtake the page.