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By Jack Joseph Smith

The End We see that do we not Always we are further tham nature We do not suggest deaster We are sure of it We know that life is a bunch of troubble And it has always beem: _ that way We lie We say this madness is new While knife fights With whites Should be something we gbew up with

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The poem rejects the lie of unprecedented crisis by returning to knife fights, race, and the old knowledge that life has always been trouble.

Claude

The poem rejects the myth of unprecedented crisis. Knife fights and racial violence are old knowledge, and the speaker insists on remembering that life has always been trouble — which is not comfort but calibration.