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By Jack Joseph Smith
You feel good
Street girl,
and street guy too
A place by the wonderful river;
American woodsmen will come to
hunt you down
Keep in mind,
you are not all that is lost
Don't join,
but please
don't say a word
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This page mixes street tenderness with warning: street girl and street guy stand by a river while American woodsmen threaten pursuit, and the final handwritten revision turns the ending toward silence.
The crossed-out typed ending and handwritten replacement matter. The page moves from a harsher warning to a plea not to join and not to speak.
Tenderness and threat share the riverbank: 'Street girl' and 'street guy too' rest by 'the wonderful river' while 'American woodsmen will come to / hunt you down,' and the close offers grim solidarity - 'you are not all that is lost' - urging silence, 'don't say a word.'