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By Jack Joseph Smith

To Of The Line You know what fuck you and all the horses you road in on means But we know we are not thinking about a race track Actually we are thinking about the beginning and ending of all time Sorry, geting back to it,, cause I know a cowboy says that too It ain't easy running off the wind,, I mean at that place where the wind is the only thing that makes a differance is WHERE it takes No matter what they say; I've seem fhe Moor make Jesus om the land,, but I have never seem the Sun make Jesus on the sea Wider than time through all it places,, after awhile it is not a lover,. surely the sea is the devil himself

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AI Interpretation

GPT

'To Of The Line' moves from cowboy profanity into beginnings, endings, wind, Jesus, and the sea as a force wider and darker than ordinary love.

The page's roughness is part of its argument: folk insult, religious image, and handwritten pressure all push the speaker toward the sea as something nearly demonic and beyond human attachment.

Claude

''''Top Of The Line' variant -- the Moon makes Jesus on land but the Sun never does on the sea. Marginalia speculates the sea 'is the devil himself.' The author works the same opening profanity as a structural hook.'''