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By Jack Joseph Smith

Here is what I heard them say The trick of Christ in corus With birds in peace Tell all the lie is out of the sky Quick and dence is the population Of our minds Your slashing of obstacle Is a wonderfull view of one self Above the Bible, absolutely in the clouds, This is their worship Between infinity

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AI Interpretation

GPT

This page turns religious language into a statement about mental density, violence, worship, and infinity.

The poem sounds doctrinal at first, but it is really interested in how aggression and belief can mirror one another inside the mind. The restored `Between infinity` pushes the worship image toward a larger metaphysical horizon.

Claude

The grandfather's crossing yields overheard doctrine: 'Here is what I heard them say / The trick of Christ in corus / With birds in peace.' The lines import the 'Clensed' creed into the Balkan story almost verbatim - 'Quick and dence is the population / Of our minds,' 'Your slashing of obstacle / Is a wonderfull view of one self,' the worship set 'Above the Bible, absolutely in the clouds.' By placing this between the wanderer's memory and 'infinity,' the poem reveals the book's whole self-regarding theology as something the speaker inherited rather than invented.