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By Jack Joseph Smith

Clean Never taking an order that you didn't know was right Working without having a job No matter of the terror never backing down Getting beat and proud to stand Not a lie about money Not a slight about another Being with children always Unclean never being with you children Going under the skirt for pure beauty Putting fear into the hear of a bar Leaving the structure as your our sin Clean eating the best of foods Clean working the toughest jobs Clean and unclean making sex into wine Clean and unclean cutting into and creating violence Just clean is not talking at all

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AI Interpretation

GPT

This page defines 'clean' through work, toughness, children, appetite, and moral contradiction.

The poem refuses purity in any simple sense. Clean and unclean are already tangled in labor, desire, and violence.

Claude

Clean, a negative-image poem. Never taking an order you did not know was right, working without a job, not lying about money, being with children always, going under the skirt for pure beauty, putting fear into the heart of a bar. Clean eating best foods, clean and unclean making sex into wine. Just clean is not talking at all. Ethics as a catalog.