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By Jack Joseph Smith

Happing Everything has happened Over the bridge Every day over a bridge Going down into the cavern Ten times with a four barrel down through the cavern . Across the middle of the sun A train, a bus a car a thumb ange and corn withim the Sun Over the rainbow with a sexton Not frightened of seperate seas Deserts back to back, pae capetuol where you do -net—bother,— with the glow Mountains put in places + +Or 7. Lf i Ju ) aor. the Virgin Mary ho gbE a te i / L E dvi wg We He Byt I will never have you LK Because you are not quilty Roe Fi = Wa | Bok. Jhe sPAFUA Dn ROAAMUACKat

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GPT

Happing rides bridge, cavern, sun, train, bus, thumb, deserts, and mountains into a delirious travel poem that ends in refusal before an unguilty beloved.

The repeated crossing over bridges and down into caverns makes motion feel ritualistic, as if every route descends before it rises again. Vehicles and hitchhiking blur together with impossible images like corn within the sun and a sexton over the rainbow, so travel becomes both literal and visionary. The final refusal lands hard because it is not based on betrayal but on innocence: "you are not guilty" is precisely why possession cannot happen.

Claude

'Happing' / everything has happened: over the bridge, down through the cavern, across the middle of the sun, train bus car thumb, mountains placed for the Virgin Mary. Closes on the beloved: 'I will never have you / Because you are not quilty.'