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By Jack Joseph Smith

Even though you say ESCAPE CAN'T be where you HAVEN'T BEEN YET To save a girth unsaddled so wise Where I see the wind pleading blood I say through the crosses that stay to make the planets visible while Eninco is longer im his stride He would say like a wild animal My BEING that nature is calm It is not nada to love and fire to bonita We are just not aloud to walk hand and hand to save the world Living our story is better told And there as I watched Eninco Look away upright on his hooves I knew the end of love For I knew the end of time

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Escape, unsaddled wisdom, pleading wind, calm nature, forbidden handholding, and Eninco's longer stride turn love into a story already shadowed by the ends of love and time.

The page pulls against every sentimental idea of love by placing it among escape, blood, stride, fire, and prohibition. Eninco seems to embody a wilder poise, someone whose being can call nature calm without making it harmless. Watching him upright on his hooves teaches the speaker that love and time end together.


Claude

The page begins with a warning about escape: 'Even though you say ESCAPE / CAN'T be where you HAVEN'T / BEEN YET.' The speaker watches 'the wind pleading blood' and speaks 'through the crosses / that stay to make the planets visible,' while Eninco moves 'longer im his stride,' animal-like, insisting 'that nature is calm.' Love is framed as forbidden and costly: 'It is not nada to love / and fire to bonita,' yet 'We are just not aloud / to walk hand and hand / to save the world,' so that 'Living our story is better told' instead. Watching Eninco 'Look away upright on his hooves,' the speaker arrives at a stark recognition: 'I knew the end of love / For I knew the end of time.'