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By Jack Joseph Smith

Watch The Sky How many times did we see money roll over on itself The negro From Mississippi To South Central I am not the best In real time The very young See twenty faces Across their past I saw that walking out to be a star Also meant walking out to see things See what I am saying No beginning, no end

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

This 'Watch The Sky' page connects money turning over, Mississippi, South Central, the very young seeing faces across their past, stardom, seeing things, and a sense of no beginning or end.

The corrected transcript keeps the page compressed but coherent. It thinks racial movement, aspiration, and perception together as part of the same outward walk.

Claude

'Watch The Sky' links money, migration, and aspiration in clipped lines. It watches 'money / roll over on itself' and traces a path 'From Mississippi / To South Central,' refusing self-aggrandizement -- 'I am not the best / In real time.' It notes how 'The very young / See twenty faces / Across their past,' then lands its insight: 'I saw that walking out / to be a star / Also meant walking out / to see things.' The poem closes on an open circle, 'No beginning, no end.' The source racial term is retained as it appears on the scan.