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By Jack Joseph Smith

When I left the Sun Hard when the Sun did shine And stayed the same Then I watched the Moon change All for you To be lost The way the underneath was ment to be Ment to be Ment tto be

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AI Interpretation

GPT

'When I left the Sun' contrasts the Sun's constancy with the Moon's change, loss, and repeated forms of what was 'ment' to be.

The spelling slippages matter because the page is already about distortion and fate. Sun and Moon become a small cosmology for leaving, watching, and being altered.


Claude

''''Giving Im' -- a brief accounting of movement without purchase. The speaker walked the feet without owning the place; 'Hollyness and war / Caught hard against your stars' compresses the whole spiritual-geographic freight into a figure of immigration as curiosity.'''