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By Jack Joseph Smith

Hard Drunk is hard Day after day If work is not an adventure then it is no work at all I for one have thought, that I could get back What if you know you can't You don’t think that it makes a diffenance; I don’t mean if you can’t do it or not,, it is just the thought that makes life different You do not aquire anything You hang on to what you got.. because it is all accident

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AI Interpretation

GPT

"Hard" makes drunken repetition, failed recovery, and accidental survival part of one bleak philosophy in which possession means only hanging on.

The page is unsparing about labor and desire: if work lacks adventure it loses meaning, yet the old possibility of getting something back has already narrowed. What matters is not success but the thought of return, which still alters the shape of a life even when impossible. Its last line strips away achievement entirely and leaves existence to chance.

Claude

Hard: drunk is hard, day after day. If work is not an adventure it is no work. You do not acquire anything, you hang on to what you got because it is all accident.