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By Jack Joseph Smith

Against the tree Dresses on the street, wandering in old wood We stripped cascara, our feet in sadle shoes Our pocket knives sleek and sharp, our laughter about ecogoly very quiet +o run with words, or to fight When we took the bar on the market, along the Eugene railroad track, We had already stold ghe wine It was just xheese for your shot, we were gettinh back

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Ecology, street life, knives, stolen wine, and railroad tracks meet in a memory where rough companionship feels formative rather than innocent.


Claude

Railroad tracks, stolen wine, and knives form the curriculum of a street education. The companionship is rough but formative — these are the people who taught the speaker how to be in the world.