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By Jack Joseph Smith

Revolution: I did not think one against the next I only followed my own dream; Don't think I saw a brighter world My way was to stop it all Having no idea a,out how to fix the hell You have to listen to this We just want the right to live Take the horror to your tribe That is revolution Done well Then start again, and say We kill tomorrow as today There is no stopping No diamonds, no gold; where would have been our behinning

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AI Interpretation

GPT

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.

Claude

''''Revolution' -- the speaker did not think one against the next; he followed his own dream and wanted to stop it all. 'We just want the right to live / Take the horror to your tribe / That is revolution / Done well.' No diamonds, no gold, 'where would have been our beginning.' The collection closes on the word 'beginning.''''