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By Jack Joseph Smith

Doing No jaw meats my brain No cumberbust has my hope Perfect in line The end of the thread is the rope Watch that bitch go Your own tries work, war, and will If you have guts listen low Rise up this time to tell Quitting is old She is your sash For clase revolution Young as always film Clashed with esta nada No todo el mondo, somehow uno Cintiava is my name Public as a prince California remains my home

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GPT

Work, war, class revolution, and film are reduced to blunt imperative lines that make action feel both theatrical and exhausted.

The page uses short declarative lines to turn doing into a set of hard emblems: brain, hope, rope, work, war, will, revolution, film, name, prince, and home. Its bluntness makes action feel ceremonial as much as practical.

Claude

Short emblematic couplets refuse the body and the costume -- 'No jaw meats my brain', 'No cumberbust has my hope' -- before sliding into command: 'Watch that bitch go', 'If you have guts listen low', 'Quitting is old'. The poem then code-switches into broken Spanish ('esta nada', 'No todo el mondo', 'uno Cintiava is my name') and lands on a fixed identity claim, 'Public as a prince' and 'California remains my home', so that doing becomes a set of declared loyalties rather than acts.