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By Jack Joseph Smith
The Way:
It is sunup
I want more power
I will have another beer
See how it is
"fo smoke more weed
It dosen't make
things clear
Though the closer
You go to sleep
| The more you
want it to be that way
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
"The Way:" presents dawn not as clarity but as the hour when appetite, intoxication, and the desire for sleep all crowd together.
The page is brutally honest about wanting more power through beer and weed while already knowing those habits do not illuminate anything. Instead of enlightenment, it offers the foggy logic of dependency, where exhaustion makes oblivion feel attractive. Sunup here is not renewal; it is the moment self-knowledge arrives and changes nothing.
The Way: it is sunup, I want more power, I will have another beer. Closer to sleep, the more you want it to be that way. A bleary stoic.