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By Jack Joseph Smith

it Birds might like to or after them But they get a kick out of telling the underground about danger Two holes at thirty feet And I have worn a sented skirt The girl scout sticks are laid at the fire frighting end there is still a shadow the other way through the hole

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

A short subterranean poem where danger travels by rumor, scent, and shadow rather than by any visible attacker.

The underground setting matters because it makes the page feel enclosed and alert. Girl scout sticks, holes, danger, and the shadow the other way all suggest a world where warning is more important than explanation.

Claude

A fragmented groundhog/muskrat burrow page — holes at thirty feet, a scented skirt, girl-scout sticks laid at `the fire frighting / end`, a shadow `the other way / through the hole`. Survival geometry mapped line by line.