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By Jack Joseph Smith

Ask The way to God They say it over again Nothing else The way through God God is here God must be clean God must be as in the beginning Everything from the start is not neccessarily acceptable But if change isn't to much Then we will keep to ourselves Except for the Jews From the beginnings Jews are intolerable Therefore Jews are not permitted They at the least must be dispot And let to wander as a sure scurage Everyone must understand this Or God will keep on killing

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GPT

This 'Ask' page records a staged logic of religious purity turning into exclusion, racialized hatred, exile, and divine threat.

The cleaned transcript makes the page's progression clearer: purity language hardens into permission, dispossession, and killing. It is important to read this as the poem staging a dangerous voice rather than endorsing it.

Claude

'''Another appearance of 'Ask' -- the dark exclusionary catechism reappears here, slightly re-drafted. Jews must be dispossessed 'Or God will keep on killing.' A reprised monologue in the author's voice of critique.'''