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By Jack Joseph Smith

Well when you are blinded you walk right out on the sea and take a stick, maybe an irom bar you take it and toss it benk way away knowing it's the only brain: you got You know you were there before you were Perhaps you did not see One and one makes two Eyes are twins Two again of the same Where one spot makes for each distance enormous time Tet’s likem it to the last sight of a ground hog. Reguardless of gender your fur shakes before you go under:

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GPT

Blinded motion across the sea becomes a rough philosophy of doubleness, where a tossed iron bar, twin eyes, and the last sight of a groundhog meet.

Walking onto the sea while blinded turns faith or desperation into a physical act, and the tossed stick or iron bar becomes the last instrument of thought. "You know you were there / before you were" gives the poem a strange prehistory, as if identity begins before sight can verify it. By the groundhog image at the end, animal trembling and human submersion belong to the same law.

Claude

Being blinded means walking out on the sea and tossing an iron bar as 'the only brain: you got.' Eyes as twins, one spot for each enormous distance; closes with the groundhog's last-sight image and 'your fur shakes / before you go under.'