By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
'Keeping Your Mouth Shut' treats vision as something to receive and protect, using boxing, art, native thread, dance, and solitude to defend what has been seen.
The page frames silence not as passivity but as resistance to dilution. Its source spellings make the instruction feel draft-like and immediate rather than polished.
A draft of 'Keeping Your Mouth Shut' that treats vision as something to receive and then guard. It instructs patience - 'A chance at vision / Let it come to you' - and warns that to acknowledge it is to lose it: 'Ignore it; that is giving im' (source spelling). The defense is physical and artisanal: 'Wild a boxers skill / to fend them off' the 'questions, and the absolutes,' yet 'Still entitled like art / like native thread.' The closing makes silence and solitude the real subject - 'You do not stop / what you have seem' (sic), and the flat verdict 'There are no comparisions / with being alone.' Source spellings (twrms, giving im, independant, comparisions) kept verbatim.