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By Jack Joseph Smith

One More Time She was in the wind He had a knife in the sky I did no the diferance I just didn't pay attention It was such a wonder, Can you imagine Crossing the line of all time How pure it is when you don't care Children everywhere have no sin Where comes the temptation to give them a gun YOU SAY OH MY WHAT CAN VE DONE to detail juggle the balls YES you will THE MOONLIT the holy ghost NOW LIE THE WASTE? BEEN IS

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

"One More Time" moves through wonder, danger, innocence, and temptation, with handwritten marginal questions pressing the typed poem toward moonlit violence, ghosts, and waste.

The recurring pressure point is children: their lack of sin is set beside the urge to arm them, which makes the page morally alarmed even when its language drifts into dreamlike abstraction. The handwritten additions make the page feel like an argument with itself, asking what can be done and circling images of the moonlit, the holy ghost, and waste.

Claude

One More Time pairs a fragmented war image, a knife in the sky, with a meditation on innocence and inattention, then breaks into disjointed capitalized fragments - THE MOONLIT, the holy ghost, NOW LIE - that read as a collapse from narrative into raw exclamation.