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By Jack Joseph Smith

One More Truth It didn’t mean a damm when we said it All that space out there for two to do There is no last dance and temptatiom, 7 will never reach an end Don*t go dowmon those who mistake you Kw All souls see the sam when their done Falling in the weeds firing a rifle t if As you will ha¥e bent fall oma woodem floor Your forehead against a brass bedi asking for forgiveness, while the pardorr of our Lord has us make a table, that will not be broken by a fistt It is all that anyone should wants; quae : ah hugh, the tumbleweed,, with: dots,, 2 *priswne thet 74 and d turning vane and dom''t let your braim go away fromthe first time Something was true

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AI Interpretation

GPT

This revised version sharpens the scene into bodily collapse and forgiveness, where violence and absolution occupy the same room.


Claude

Revision sharpens the original scene into closer quarters — bodily collapse and forgiveness now occupy the same room, making absolution physical rather than theological.