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By Jack Joseph Smith

. Bad Thoughts: You. can't keep the gift And want the death Of the same person At the same time If one gives you: smmething Impossible to buy And then begins to steal In all ways Stealing being the same Pathological now And how do you do Kill it perhaps, wher your sure The eyes and the hands are a trick Tripped up not’ tying the. knot: There again, where you wanted Perceptiom to be finished Place ones self in middle thought A place where danger is unredeanable Everybody should know kick the car: From advemture to the streett Y / Those who just dom"t,. or those who have forgot Leave it alome,.“so you: can come back, see it agaim; The answer: to ph thoughtt C66 ay

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The poem refuses the fantasy of loving the gift while desiring the giver's death, tracing betrayal back to the mind's appetite for violence.

Claude

The poem catches the mind in its ugliest fantasy — wanting the gift while wishing the giver dead — and traces that betrayal back to an appetite for violence that exists prior to any specific provocation.