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By Jack Joseph Smith

My silence has always been a stream Slightly shot in the heart Away from the rock A gathering to leave Always coming back You can draw the curtains, but you got to pull the drapes I think when you are different you get to see God before you get there

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GPT

This page begins in a quiet self-description and then turns practical, almost proverbial, about curtains, drapes, difference, and seeing God early.

The shift from stream-and-heart imagery to ordinary household language gives the page a striking plainness. It reads like a poem trying to make spiritual difference speak through domestic metaphor.

Claude

A silence-as-stream page that claims 'when you are / different you get to / see God before you / get there,' one of the author's more direct theological self-placements.