Untitled ("So what else do do I go tracking the")

By Jack Joseph Smith

So what else do do I go tracking the kids I'm on the bluff and there they are reflecting on the river, more or a creek actually, and when I saw what are you guys doing, they say trying to find two in everything, I have smoked a pipe, really have, but I say, try that one You say my joy is in death I hear you on the T.V. You think the Presedent of the United States and the boss of the local saw mill look any different, move any different It's a horror they are the same

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AI Interpretation

GPT

A bluff-side poem that ties children, television, politics, and death into one bleak continuity.

Claude

The doubled 'do do' is either stutter or emphasis — either way, it marks exhaustion. Children, television, politics, death: all are listed as equivalent objects of attention in a life where everything demands tracking and nothing resolves.

The resigned 'so what else' suggests a speaker who has tracked everything important and found it wanting. What remains is attention as habit rather than hope.