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By Jack Joseph Smith

Not on your like When we went down To marry Think of that sound The tainis nice We don't know any better The rain is as niecas the sea To have sonething, and here it comes, the rain again Least importany is the slaughter We hang them up long as we can I went what when I f ell in love Years of understanding moments og time Polished and glisened Slow and caycious iy goes My love, I would do what I was told to do It's not passive; you got to know that it dosen't believe in you or you would never brand it

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

This page is spare and chantlike, reducing movement, marriage, and sound to a handful of unstable lines.

Its fragmentary quality feels deliberate. Rather than explain itself, the poem leaves behind a few ceremonial gestures and lets their broken arrangement carry the mood.

Claude

A spare, chantlike marriage poem broken into short drops - 'When we went down / To marry / Think of that sound' - threaded by recurring rain, 'The rain is as niecas the sea' and 'here it comes, / the rain again.' Violence sits low in the frame ('Least importany is the slaughter / We hang them up long as we can') against tenderness ('I went what when I f ell in love,' 'Years of understanding moments og time / Polished and glisened'). It closes on a hard paradox of love and ownership - 'My love, I would do what I was told to do / It's not passive ... it dosen't believe in you or you would never brand it' - keeping 'tainis,' 'niecas,' 'importany,' 'og,' 'glisened,' and 'caycious' as written.