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By Jack Joseph Smith

The train moved nicely then Swinging through the middle lands Good birthday party All here Ruby at ten said David James and I will stay Bob decided on his own to stay Out on the tracks the car just stopped Big train coming down with wide eyes for glass and big lips for steell looking like brass There were seven into the driv'in Mother and father and kids but one was paralitic Which means alot of work when they freeze as the oldest lady went from the car but a pebble stopped her lock back on doom

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GPT

The scan-verified poem turns a birthday gathering near train tracks into a compressed accident scene, with children, a stopped car, a paralitic family member, and an oldest lady halted at the door.

Removing letterhead noise and restoring All here makes the poem's chant-like sequence clearer. The plain lineation lets the train's glass, steell, brass, and frozen family members build dread without explanatory connective tissue.

Claude

Short verse poem - The train moved nicely then / swinging through the middle lands - Ruby at ten, David, James, Bob staying out on the tracks, big train with wide eyes for glass and big lips for steel looking like brass. Seven in the drive-in with one paralytic child, an old lady pebble-stopped looking back on doom. A compressed family-on-the-tracks nightmare.