By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This page says a song requires a person to grow up because making it means constantly looking back at what has already been done.
The repeated lines behave like a chorus, which is fitting for a poem about song. The cleaned layout restores the look-back structure and lets the final boast about knowing nothing and nothing unknown land as a strange total knowledge.
Built like a song with a repeated chorus, this page states its one truth twice: 'One thing in common with a song / You got to grow up a little bit / Cause when you are doing it / always / Your always looking back / at / to what you have done'. The fractured lineation - single words stranded as 'always' and 'at' - enacts the backward glance it describes. The second pass tightens the same refrain ('YA' got to grow up / A little bit'), and the close turns the song's retrospect into a koan of total knowledge: 'No I don't know nothing, / and there ain't nothing, / I don't know' - ignorance and omniscience folded into the same sentence.