By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
This final page defines revolution less as utopia than as the desperate demand for the right to live inside a world that already feels like hell.
The poem refuses romantic purity. It admits repetition, tribe, violence, failed repair, and a broken 'behinning,' which makes its use of the word 'revolution' sound exhausted but still necessary.
'Revolution' reframes upheaval as survival, not utopia. The speaker 'did not think one against the next', 'only followed my own dream', wanting 'to stop it all' while 'Having no idea a,out how to fix the hell' (the source's 'a,out' kept). Its creed is bare - 'We just want the right to live / Take the horror to your tribe / That is revolution / Done well' - and explicitly recursive: 'Then start again', 'We kill tomorrow as today', 'There is no stopping'. Stripped of riches ('No diamonds, no gold'), it closes on origin itself - 'where would have been / our behinning' - the page's last word landing on a misspelled 'beginning.'