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By Jack Joseph Smith

need to say, if you did not understand, hat I didn't see anything, it is all an mpression ne glory of God and the wonderment f: Christ; you can't have both, so ake your pick, and she excapes and oes on walking again, jist regular, oing through alot as if nothing was herey or going through nothing,. and hat always ment alot, there was a rop of rain so I checked out an inclawe; ne was still on the corner with her mouth ide operr, and there is a girl out there hat says don’t look one more time, because life is faster than that), a¢==aaaeSees Saat fy

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

Impression rather than certainty governs a poem that forces a choice between the glory of God and the wonder of Christ while a woman escapes ordinary attention and keeps walking faster than life allows a second look.

The refusal to claim direct sight gives the poem a shaken honesty, as if belief begins where evidence fails. The distinction between God and Christ matters because it denies easy fullness, insisting that devotion comes with exclusion. Her regular walk through either everything or nothing gives the piece its poise, and the final warning makes hesitation itself feel fatal.

Claude

A mid-paragraph run with leftmost letters shaved off in transcription; the glory of God or the wonderment of Christ, pick one. Life is faster than that.