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By Jack Joseph Smith

First Young Tired of those who need to conclude that something is not true I got the inclination to figure it out Then I go ahead and do what I want Steps outside the city Yet branched with roads minutes from my home Therre Though I could turn around and go to the south or to the north On paths, and cobblestones where vehicals would be hand maid and unusual, if they showed up at all What was said was, you got to get Out of the way, of all else, when you have a place to go Two Edge of Bridge And three Rivers

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

The page joins stubborn thought to movement, pushing away false conclusions while imagining a life that turns south or north along cobblestones branching from home.

What survives most clearly is a commitment to self-direction. The opening revision rejects people who rush to decide what is not true, and the typed body answers by choosing cobblestone roads that branch from home minutes away. The bottom marginal reference to Two Edge of Bridge And three Rivers grounds the wandering in a specific local geography.

Claude

First Young is a revision draft where the handwritten revisions do most of the moral work. The typed lines claim self-direction, but the handwritten Tired of those who need to conclude that something is not true is the page's actual creed. The cobblestones and three rivers anchor the refusal to a real place.