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By Jack Joseph Smith

Severe A? “ee a) Quiet as lead Less careful than cows Mistaking watchfulness for a dream No ordinary pick up The left over food would be the best there could be The upside was delicious The down side dangerous No one here likes intruders Hunger is not there area Pleasure is there thing Well we had a Dego among us He once walked throurh the door when he sold it before doing it We were trapped at the dumpster The first thin I thourht was, how the alley smelled so good I saw there anger was as simple, as a button lost ona date So I told them there was already a body in the garbage, and in their tiping pend fhe Ce r ve you have the first time I shived a pig, Aye v fs TOMO.

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Dumpster hunger, intrusion, alley smell, and quick anger give the poem the tense comedy of a threat remembered at close range.

Claude

Hunger at the dumpster, intrusion, alley smell — the poem remembers a threat at close range with the tense comedy of someone who survived it and still feels the proximity.