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By Jack Joseph Smith

Working your way out of the wilderness Is hard Working your way into it; definately is most-likely, a similar difficulity Things pass, so with the consintration, servarity has no way of knowing. what each let go by Most with power kill what they know They appear to themselves As the only ONES that should be LEFT,

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

The page begins as a reflection on leaving and entering difficulty, then hardens into a warning about power and the violence of self-importance.

The wilderness metaphor first sounds philosophical, almost patient, but the handwritten close gives it a social target. Those with power are accused of destroying what they know and then treating themselves as the only rightful survivors. That turn makes the page feel less meditative than accusatory, as if private struggle and public cruelty were part of the same world.

Claude

Working your way out of the wilderness is hard, and into it similarly difficult. Most with power kill what they know and see themselves as the only ones that should be left.