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By Jack Joseph Smith

Streetcorner Tr didn't ask for anybody to cross my ways ; or to cross me Settled at my desk now to make myself deliver ™ I am the conscience with drawm Street gossip,. and sir im the underground of homes,, oo _ a zg pass me by,, and hid suey romr-me y Eoké , ) Angry and narrow eyed,, the assult of my type makes life appear only to me o . Il carry crysses and curses row robim Dawn to dusk I cherish class, but nothing of what would of beerr That is dislike and watching t crese) Ag ic ‘the departediand the departure And my aloneness In: a whisper That will not wilt) Jan S S\ardr bE, this esoorstic tHEE i

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker sets himself apart from gossip and traffic, making class-conscious solitude feel like both burden and vocation.

Claude

Solitude is presented as both class marker and vocation — the speaker stands apart from gossip and traffic not by choice but by the force of a difference he cannot explain and does not apologize for.