Untitled ("Sometimes I is good")

By Jack Joseph Smith

Sometimes I is good To have forgotten What you wanted to say Choices never rhyme Wishing another way Has not to do with hate and sacrifice being the best part of youth Father's without feeling didn't express that There is no hurt No feeling really Leaving when your young Wildness knows there shouldn't be any cross about wood and stone

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AI Interpretation

GPT

A brief reflection on youth and emotional inheritance, stripped down until forgetfulness itself starts to sound like survival.

Claude

Four lines that compress an entire philosophy of forgetting: sometimes the best thing is to have lost what you wanted to say, because choices never rhyme — they do not match, do not pair, do not resolve into the symmetries that art and memory promise.

The deliberate grammar of 'Sometimes I is good' — using 'I' where 'it' is expected — makes the speaker and the concept of goodness grammatically identical, as if selfhood and forgetting were the same blessing.