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By Jack Joseph Smith

My experance is mostly black But everybody else cam'do what I tell them too She will never forget you for it Out as far as you can go You get fooled with the banks will fall . I got anstracted frim romance I'll never take that chance again: But the old karma stuff Might keep me speading out I haven't seenvher ° since she left, I just wonder about'. Talk about weak, I know I can’t? go through the gates of Heaven) Ds sh E Y 5 tp without a sword in-my hand

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The page moves from command, betrayal, and failed romance into a grim admission that the speaker still imagines heaven as a place he could enter only armed.

This is one of the harsher self-portraits in the set because it never pretends the speaker has become gentle with age. Romance has collapsed, karma is treated half-mockingly, and what remains is a warrior reflex that even paradise cannot disarm. The sword in hand is not triumphant; it is evidence that the soul has been trained by conflict beyond its own wishes.

Claude

My experance is mostly black but everybody else can do what I tell them too. Got abstracted from romance. Can't go through the gates of Heaven without a sword in my hand.