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By Jack Joseph Smith

Quiet Questions are quiet, they begin that way To suddenly see a berry tree, where the tongue talking before thought is a natural thing; sensitive is where it starts, many times a truth in a question Many times more truth all across quiet Dangerous as taking, dangerous as using another's bow; look at a kid, your kid, someone else's kid,. any kid for Heaven's sake, and if you see a differance, then there is no use talking to you; didn't see a minute pass through the hour glass, you need to switch the sand, go ahead, or so it appears, until no time let at all; how good does it fell, when there is no money, to hand your mom two thousand dollars I guess Enough to go in the ring again

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GPT

Another 'Quiet' page links questioning to children, fairness, passing time, generosity, and the impulse to go back into the ring.

The cleaned bottom addition gives the page a more active ending. After the moral test of seeing every child without hierarchy and the memory of giving money to his mother, the speaker's 'I guess' becomes a renewed willingness to continue.

Claude

A second 'Quiet' keeps the opening axiom - 'Questions are quiet, they begin that way' - then turns toward sudden perception, 'To suddenly see a berry tree, where the / tongue talking before thought is a / natural thing', and finds 'more truth all across quiet'. Its moral center is a test of equality among children: 'look at a kid, your kid, / someone else's kid,. any kid for Heaven's / sake, and if you see a differance, then / there is no use talking to you'. Time runs out through a familiar image - 'didn't see / a minute pass through the hour glass ... until no time let at all' - and the handwritten close grounds the abstraction in pride and poverty: how good it feels, 'when there is no money, to hand / your mom two thousand dollars', enough 'to go in the / ring again', generosity bankrolling another round of the fight.