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By Jack Joseph Smith

No matter what is said concerning cershindo we know it is all about the beginning and the ending; take a bath if you get a chance, good by, my displeasure won't last We know evil is two and two, ostensible We do not cross its lines, however if ya’ put itup, most do No one is alowd to go to work, let alone _° walk down the street unless thay have a bit at least of fashest in their convetsatior over I have walked on meadows, amd I have walkee across the sea, but I never thought I was Jesus I have seen some medows beneath my feet has And I have sdensome thousand miles skirt fuer them too across the sea, pus-E-never-theught Mul and I never gave a thought to Jesus when I 7 I, yf was doing it {pzyndows é EEL T have walked across the most beautiful

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker sets beginnings and endings against a fascist public atmosphere, insisting on ordinary human scale while refusing both evil’s logic and any messianic self-image.

The poem moves from domestic instruction to political disgust without changing tone, which makes the critique feel lived rather than rhetorical. Its sharpest line is the claim that everyday speech already carries a bit of fascism, turning the whole street into a contaminated space. The final rejection of Jesus is not irreverence for its own sake; it is a refusal to mythologize one’s own endurance.

Claude

No matter what is said concerning cershindo: beginning and ending. I have walked on meadows and across the sea, but I never thought I was Jesus. Idiosyncratic spelling fashest, alowd retained.