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By Jack Joseph Smith

The Heart Of the Matter You can see a sound and think what it must be You can be:an animal without a mind, and find it amusing You carr not watch trouble and sorrow, and get away withit, slowly I say,, it's a reaper The plaines have lost their underbelly; Surely the sea is losing it''s shell a, The mountains gutsy mar’s dream, and final. goat Your head ackes in the corner saying never cry Waiting for somebody K tee your forehead, is the omly way; be swankie finding a) awash,, truth,, yes, suit —_aer up, 4 ore Most, now nowone is watching you ,, and ‘ ) p don't have to Meter) [prow you just get to see

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The world is imagined as losing its underbelly and shell, while tenderness survives only in the wish for someone to touch the forehead.


Claude

The world losing its underbelly and shell — its protection from above and below simultaneously — leaves only the wish for someone to touch the forehead. Tenderness becomes the last remaining structure.