By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
The page sounds like a brutal memory inventory, where school, soul, livestock land, and crows all collapse into emotional exhaustion.
Its repetitions of finish up and go ahead memory make the poem feel like the speaker is forcing herself through recollection. By the end, the crows' indifference becomes a model for surviving what the page has been trying to remember.
A poem that forces itself through painful memory. The 'drum roll... they do it in highschool' summons 'The young and the alone' and the wound that follows: 'I now know a deep slit / in my soul'. The speaker openly commands the recollection - 'Go ahead memory / Lets finish up' - then lets the landscape answer with exhaustion: 'Sunflowers at fair to mid land / sunk in the skinny livestock medow', and crows who 'don't do shit'. Their indifference becomes the speaker's own model for endurance: 'they could care less / about the bones'.