Don't Look Twice
By Jack Joseph Smith
Your spaceship goes out of control
And your heading for that hole
The light goes through the prism
And seperates the spectrum
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AI Interpretation
GPT
A short warning poem that frames danger as speed, control loss, and the splitting of light into harsher knowledge.
The compression makes it feel like a flash of cosmic panic.
Claude
The spaceship, the hole, the prism — each image accelerates the previous one until looking twice becomes impossible because the world is moving too fast. The poem captures the moment when perception splits under velocity, and what was light becomes something harsher and more divided.
The warning in the title is addressed outward but felt inward. Don't look twice because the second look will show you what the first one mercifully missed.