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By Jack Joseph Smith

Consquence It takes a farmer to be a poet You don't learn the myth, you be the myth No one teells you what to do or how to do it You single out your self and nobody else You know that pretense to see in life, while protected, can make though easy, but will not give any kind of afterlife, how less the difficult, the apelling of your n,me may be

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The farmer-poet is imagined as someone who does not learn myth academically but inhabits it through work, solitude, and name.

Claude

The farmer-poet does not study myth — he lives inside it through soil, work, and the weight of his own name. Knowledge here is grown, not learned.