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By Jack Joseph Smith

The Infant Coming out of the wildest wind Clearly Nabraska would be a child The sun shone, disappeared, than Wnaea aire eoaana All on the day you were born, this earth was shattered more servervily, than anything it had ever seen” In shadow or sorrow, in steel and strength, you became my intelligance, you became my test Every day I sat you down in the middle of a yard, that was a medow, and asked you in the evening, to be the sweet dream of your mother This was not a dumb mistake within a dream, you were done on purpose With work, with war without metaphor, you, were the eriding through hell for absolution Your quietness and strength as an a told me that how far I was away from Honestic life, I would stay, like a chiefton knowing his tribe, would be lost, for you, I would stay There is no glory at the end of a tongue, , and I know I talk to much But I wrapped you with what wisdom I had, and never has there been a single instant of sadness, while I guess the hardest part for both of us, is that I love you still

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AI Interpretation

GPT

A child born into wind and Nebraska becomes both test and intelligence, forcing the speaker to stay in the world for love rather than glory.


Claude

The child born into Nebraska wind becomes the reason to stay in the world — not glory or ambition but the specific intelligence of a specific child demanding the speaker's continued presence.