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By Jack Joseph Smith

Song Will you ever walk with me, when we are still A change,. will you go through REAL with me If I lifted a wing, to have a wing to lift. Would I be felled with sorrow The other to give to you Two roads against the middle; Death the Proud Brother Let us literature: find a song in hurt Work as if it was still a world See if you can stand back and touch the sound. Just to see across things makes you asunder Beneath you worry and then make your way in You sing, first as a bird that is leaving The wiries in the city,, the dynasitystops. when you haven't sung Along To have Paris and an harmonica and subtle too All along I asertain my mouth from American Indian reservation; knowing whenr grander is SWEET, it is The SAME

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

Sorrow, departure, Paris, harmonica, and reservation imagery combine into a wandering song about hurt shared across distance.

The page asks whether song can carry a companion through change, sorrow, work, death, literature, city, Paris, harmonica, and reservation memory. The clear handwritten REAL and Along sharpen the address to the companion and the motion of singing with or beside someone, while the final `SWEET, it is / The SAME` turns the reservation passage into a closing affirmation; the larger For you margin note still needs closer placement against the scan.

Claude

'Song' begins as a companionship vow phrased through wings - 'Will you ever walk with me, when we are still / A change,. will you go through REAL with me,' 'If I lifted a wing, to have a wing to lift' - shadowed by 'Death the Proud Brother' at 'Two roads against the middle.' It proposes making art out of pain ('Let us literature: find a song in hurt') and tests whether one can 'stand back and touch the sound.' The song travels - 'first as a bird that is leaving,' through 'The wiries in the city,' 'Paris and an harmonica' - and grounds itself in 'American / Indian reservation' memory, closing on equivalence: 'whenr grander is / SWEET, it is / The SAME.' This reading stays provisional: the page is needs-followup with an uncertain 'For you' margin note. Source spellings 'wiries,' 'asertain,' and 'whenr' are preserved.