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By Jack Joseph Smith

Thee Flat One thing to another You work on a piece And then you set it Tough as you get You have n ot paid for any of it's wonders It is a living hell I saw a fainting move across the walll Tonight another dream The sence of life is low, don''look up Down is bette r The study of good

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Thee Flat turns making a piece into unpaid wonder, living hell, low life-sense, a fainting motion across the wall, and the study of good.

The page feels deliberately deflated. It resists uplift in both spelling and direction: `don't look up` is malformed on the page, and the poem chooses down as the better way to study good.

Claude

''''Thee Flat' -- labor of making and setting a piece. 'I saw a sainting / move across the walll.' 'The sence of life is low, don't look up / Down is better / The study of good.''''