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By Jack Joseph Smith

Staying Still Once I took a dream, once a dream took me Each time I think I don't feel how it had been To try and then trough away thought is right and wrong Don't let anything go away, but it im the ground like a bandit; their searching will be ypur joy Whem I went searching the desert was God, the mountains were easy,, secure, lonely with love: even if she was there, the sea was always nothing is next; structure with all of the above gives you art, a challenge to yourself, cause if you do only one art, still you will know all arts. If one can do all art is different, all the while, the one art leaves you always to be at home with all the rest Going on your way is so quiet. the wonderment of lost,, for the first time,, how clean it is. My brillance is that I see nothing and it need mot be spoken of; possibly now whem consequence is seem one hundered years ahead, where as money is, This, if you have it today and don't have it tomorrow, it has no moral,, it is just that traveling om is better for knowing more. If the sea skips and stings fast across the top. that is one thing, but if it is shallow enough to be turned underneath. Then that is another. as if Stillness were mot all a metphor.

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Dreams, desert, mountains, sea, art, money, and travel all lead to the claim that knowing more requires movement rather than possession.

The page argues against possession and stasis by moving through dream, desert, sea, art, money, travel, and metaphor. It treats stillness as something that must be tested against motion, consequence, and knowledge.

Claude

This prose-block meditation argues that stillness must be earned through motion: 'Once I took a dream, once a dream took me', and 'the desert was God, the / mountains were easy'. Its ars poetica claim -- that doing 'only one art, still you will know all arts' and that one art 'leaves you always to be at home with / all the rest' -- feeds a defense of travel over possession, since money 'has no moral' and 'traveling om is / better for knowing more', closing on the suspicion 'as if Stillness were mot all a metphor'. This reading remains provisional because the page transcript is OCR-uncertain and the lower handwritten corrections (around top/turned and Stillness) are unresolved.