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By Jack Joseph Smith

Sight She saw the Sun float She saw the Moon float too She wondered How's come the stars stay in one place However; she was a hard working Grammer girl, and she knew different Fourteen and buttons on my shoes I will slap anything that gives me up She said the same thing when she was ten Ugly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Central America Jungle The wonderful South Seas The same as her said the same thing

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

Under `Sight`, the recurring young-life material becomes more purely visual: sun, moon, stars, grammar-school intelligence, Pittsburgh, Central America, and the South Seas are reduced to a sharp sequence.

The corrected lineation emphasizes how compressed this variant is. It keeps the girl's defiant speech and the geography, but strips away much of the earlier narrative padding.

Claude

''''Sight' -- third pass, trimmed further. Same grammar school protagonist, same Pittsburgh-jungle-South-Seas triad. 'The same as her said the same thing' becomes the retained epigraph.'''