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By Jack Joseph Smith

I didn’t think at ten shooting rabbit's and groundhog’s on the Walpash Bueking colts into the fence and shooting hoops underneath the race track All aroynd Methodist I would rememper the Holy Ghoast When you know 211 about Hell That dosen't mear your right T didn’t see anything until I saw your fist I didn*t see anything Until I saw your mouth Male and famile It passes through Next to nothing Without a word The truth

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Childhood on the Wabash with rabbits, groundhogs, colts, hoops, and Methodist country turns toward the Holy Ghost only after fist and mouth reveal a wordless truth passing through bodies.

The early images are rough and physical, full of sport, hunting, and animal force, yet none of that counts as real vision. Hell is known before understanding, which is why the poem insists that knowledge alone does not make anyone right. The repeated turn toward fist and mouth suggests revelation arriving through bodily encounter rather than doctrine, and truth passes through male and female without attaching to either.

Claude

Autobiography at ten on the Walpash shooting rabbits and groundhogs, bucking colts, shooting hoops under the race track around Methodist, remembering the Holy Ghost. Knowing all about Hell does not mean you are right; the truth passes through male and female 'without a word.'