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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 endings take 2 path 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 _ 7 walk down the street unless thay have 4 pit 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 sden-some thousand miles skirt fuer them too across the sea, pus-F-never-theught vi bh/ and I never gave 4 thought to Jesus when 1 7 ot tte f l was doing it (Wteadows A EAEE T nave walked across the most beautiful

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AI Interpretation

GPT

This page sets beginnings and endings against a public climate of everyday fascism, insisting on human scale while refusing both evil’s logic and any fantasy of sainthood.

Its tone stays casual even while making a savage political claim, which is part of what gives it force. The poem suggests that corruption has entered ordinary conversation so completely that the street itself is compromised. The closing refusal to imagine himself as Jesus keeps the speaker grounded in plain endurance rather than martyrdom.

Claude

Near duplicate of 149: cershindo passage, meadows and seas walked without thinking he was Jesus, fashest retained.