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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
No time change becomes an inner acoustic, where exotic travel changes little, middle people stay the same, and excitement for the next stop refuses to leave you alone.
This version strips the motion down even further and lets the pressure sit inside the head. "Middle people" makes the world feel socially repetitive, as if class temperament survives geography. Happiness about the next stop is not release but another way of being held.
A second 'No time change' strips the motion further and lets the pressure sit inside the head. The opening menace returns -- 'Like a black in his home town / You got to watch your ass, / when you get out there in space / It is an extream' -- and the refrain sharpens to 'As quiet as you get, / then it gets very loud / in your head.' 'Middle people' make the world socially repetitive across geography, and the 'next stop' is no release: 'forget about it leaving / you alone.'