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By Jack Joseph Smith

Thought Ake ph The foromat aspect of fire, The ingulfing The taking without quench, this is thought The times not told about, the licence of gossip Now you see, to late to hurt thE pore Acknowledgement as steady as iron, Sime, the hammer © prear 6our dangerous and obnoxious prain, yi it is clear that you are alone’ 1 conearmment Bf vever being done TT secttten singles nothing, whitchcraft, = a or taking your job, you don't care, y humor is not snide, joy is going on Make every trail a wilderness place Nature will reach the city as a grace Don't let the end take you apart Stare down like rain the violent As strong as the old, good as country lace The masters are dead when they become our youth Men keep the keys when there farm is taken from them Thought is the period where there is no ground for assult Eyes in the ice are what you already ioe oy aneeenet Courousness is first and leaves you last Give the rest a chance, it's your thought

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Thought is figured as fire, gossip, grace, and violence, with curiosity surviving where certainty and mastery fail.


Claude

Thought survives as fire and gossip and grace when certainty and mastery have failed. Curiosity outlasts knowledge because it does not need to resolve.