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By Jack Joseph Smith

I! got To Get Up It is not a nighmear, just a bad dream Ya’ got to think more even than three When it comes to you more than twice Like agood old cat im the corner Whining dosen't mean I want you to hear me,. 2 window of ware, reflecting nothing, when I was barely young they would all come, now knowone would So get up and write, a line,. be careful and do it slow as if it is the wilderness And rememember at night That is why you wake up

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GPT

I got To Get Up strips the earlier exhortation down to a cleaner argument: a bad dream is not a nightmare, and waking exists so a careful line can be written.

The opening correction matters because it refuses melodrama and makes the speaker more disciplined. Thinking more even than three suggests a vigilance beyond easy counting or ordinary reason. The cat, the window, and the vanished audience all return, but now they serve a single purpose: get up, write, and understand why waking happens.

Claude

Companion revision: 'think more even than three' when it comes to you more than twice; the whining cat; the window of ware; the same injunction to write a line slow, as if in wilderness, and remember at night why you wake up.