By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
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.
'Linda' opens on patience -- 'Some wait, some don't / I waited' -- and a corner where 'beauty show up.' The poem swerves into politics and place: 'We know crazy is better / Than war,' which is 'not liberal' but 'old Texas, / Cowboy as a song / Never end.' It closes by naming home 'Dangerous' and tipping its hat, 'And thank / You very much.'