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By Jack Joseph Smith

Linda Some wait, some don't I waited; across montina,, at the corner I knew it See what I mean; beauty show up We know crazy is better Than war... That is not liberal That is old Texas, Cowboy as a song Never end The place I'm from Dangerous And thank You very much

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GPT

Addressed to Linda, this page links waiting, a corner encounter, beauty, craziness, old Texas, cowboy song, danger, and thanks.

The cleaned transcript restores the page's clipped logic: beauty appears suddenly, and the poem answers with danger, gratitude, and a deliberately rough regional vocabulary.

Claude

''''Linda' -- a waiting poem. 'Some wait, some don't / I waited; across Sabrina, at the corner I knew it.' Cowboy as liberalism's opposite; dangerous thanks.'''