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By Jack Joseph Smith

"Got A lot of running under the sun. And that great sun your upon me it says upon the sweet sweet sun it is. Brown and blue opening." He took his opened hand to his lips, and let his arm go out like a salute to the sun from his hand. Run your heart out to the sun if you love man. Sing lean under the arch at the end of your grin men and women in the world are wild and true. If you can't then appear on the break of daylight. They may have flowers behind their ears but their eyes are of both the blue and black. cold that you departed as crystal is all from the edge of the sun.

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

The page treats the sun as both witness and object of address, turning bodily motion into a rough hymn to warmth, wildness, and exposure.

Its language is heavily revised, but the emotional direction survives: the speaker reaches toward heat, light, and physical abandon while insisting that human beings remain mixed, beautiful, and dangerous. The blue-and-black eyes near the end sharpen that doubleness instead of resolving it. This reading remains provisional pending closer scan-backed transcription review.

Claude

A handwritten lyric breaks from the narrative into direct address of the sun: 'Run your heart out to the sun if you love man,' 'Sing lean under the arch at the end of your grin.' Its people 'are wild and true,' wearing 'flowers behind their ears' but with 'eyes... of both the blue and black' - a hymn to heat and abandon that keeps human beauty doubled and dangerous rather than resolved. This reading remains provisional because the heavily revised handwritten page is OCR-uncertain and flagged for follow-up.