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By Jack Joseph Smith
It is good to clip along the sea
Call it a knot
Call it whatever you want life to be
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
This page uses the language of the sea to say that naming life is always provisional.
The poem is light and aphoristic. A knot is both a nautical fact and a made thing, so the page suggests that life too can be called by many names without ever settling into one permanent definition.