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By Jack Joseph Smith

Sight / Se Oo Nef A long time ago I made a pact With the blind men cause they are all alike And I was twirling my finger im the air Standing there in the bank Telling these fellows intent AbhE PLA cE on robbing Wf ro get lost cause as I was dropping names I noticed they. wern't picking la ups and therefore knew, that they were not authentic

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AI Interpretation

GPT

A pact with blind men becomes a test of authenticity in a bank scene where the speaker reads criminal intent and dismisses the false article behind it.

The poem treats blindness less as lack than as a shared code, something the speaker trusts more than the visible performance of the men around him. Twirling a finger in the air and dropping names gives the scene a swagger that is also diagnostic. The crucial turn is that the supposed robbers fail to recognize the signals, and that failure exposes them as impostors.

Claude

Sight: a pact with the blind men because they are all alike, twirling finger in a bank, dropping names the robbers did not pick up, therefore not authentic.