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By Jack Joseph Smith

Ever There isn't ever one low line drawm that makes us ever. As a child IT have: seem the: finest! waterfalls and streams, and knew therm without: expression, that poe was ever The Moor and the:Sun mar jt they: are still the: same to us, Si are never ever ever , all i mu et Peabifies and stones as: seamerr too, walk with you, make thouelttiy, even as you get Cyrilder always see:to yourself. I am am aristracty who wished something could Have beer done about it: Many: a bear I've seer just at one time ° Memery is more tham just a dreanr Leavimg things go is a mistake While passing things om is good Equal | If at the same timeswe were always fifty, feettabove Would we not always know we were crawling through grass and comcrete:, EV Bw

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Waterfalls, streams, Sun, Moon, memory, and inheritance widen the poem into a meditation on what remains while human life crawls through grass and concrete.

Claude

Waterfalls, streams, Sun, Moon — the poem widens until human life is just one thing crawling through grass and concrete while the larger elements persist unchanged. The scale shift is humbling rather than consoling.