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By Jack Joseph Smith
Slowly but surely
How did you manage
To do this.
Stretch myth
Greek to Hillbilly
I look down and saunder.
Boots a long time yonder
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
GPT
This short page turns the title phrase into a compact meditation on transformation, myth, and distance, moving from Greek to Hillbilly and ending with boots far down the road.
The poem reads as a deliberately sparse transition piece. Its corrected spacing keeps the lines close together while preserving the quiet progression from question to cultural stretch to wandering.