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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
Mistake, war, desire, shooting, and dream-collapse fold together until trouble itself becomes a song that keeps remaking the speaker's bond to the one he still expects to see again.
The page moves with the fatal confidence of someone who knows he acted too quickly and still cannot fully repent of it. Running from war into blond hair and brown rice suggests that refuge and seduction are never cleanly separate here. By the time the rug curls and the hamic flips, the speaker and addressee are on the ground as witnesses rather than masters of events, yet the closing line insists the attachment survives the wreck.
This untitled page confesses an unrepented act: 'I didn't have a chance to see you / after I had made a mistake', from a man 'who ran from war / to blond hair and brown rice.' Its hinge is the proverb 'But troubble is a sond / It will follow you and make you sing / Or it will change you and make you proud.' The shooting is owned without apology - 'I did not take a second when I shot you / And if that was not my best idea,, / you can not tell me what was' - and after the surreal collapse ('The rug curled up / The hamic flipped'), the two end as 'just a witness to the dream', the bond still intact: 'As if I would not see you once again.'