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By Jack Joseph Smith

1 wisdiy wal ke ony pup fv Sacrifice / Ww Y There stars seek: light Jd p a) | Hereca sum seeks shadow /) A ground swell —— Ww a) 4D Bp “saes it is nature: inch by inch Whem there iis no place to set the table Lost: is simply a dish om the street, evem better a pam im the wood Watching: through: Black: lipa,. wings kwached: and simgled: through: seaver: Left flapping the subterranean, with the whore havimg ome way to walk, while her: user has two i4-k0-omly-Shat whem glory ceases te exist, ek. sy up im the morning,, £%-hapebeem done om purpose. J The: monster went won onal obese appear Camter across the greem facing fences risem I took: a black: cloth and' wrong out the sweti meee was the same, no ch gst eas th Ee nA & (C some yellew,. the cletin pre tk a thought it might Keplp me betweem my teeth as I get weiped; A id varcle ng 600) totth toon “ ’ Them Il realized that if all matter dosent bleeds, sacrifine: hed worn gKs bat. t

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Light, shadow, street refuse, exploitation, cloth, sweat, and obliteration gather into a sacrificial vision where the body braces itself for being wiped out.

Claude

Light, shadow, refuse, exploitation, cloth, sweat — each word tightens the sacrificial vision until the body braces for obliteration. The poem does not describe sacrifice but prepares for it, physically.