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By Jack Joseph Smith

Connection Like care for a chicken take the head of summery Until speech is decapitated and slaughter stands for joy Think of murder through the sight, of irrevereseable consquence never expecting death, as an accident in the mind There is no cowardice in the clown, no shy fox in the hunt, and the bellicose and the hound, will take it as far as they can get I had a Black cod captain once OVER THE OREGON COAST Ottis Odysseus is his name, and he wrote with a thumb nail, "you think I am, I know I'm not For the fathoms are a wrappin' From beneath the sea, the waters boil; here comes another snapper" And one lunges forth and further with the fury, when the bounty is a beauty exactly their own For The gize in the bounds laid in the damage, the tracking will do Knowing that cutting to THE quick to cook slow is a feast A LITTLE bit drunk on it All must watch closely; all should belong Slow danger changers slip locked in step Release your charge account, and put your finger to THE Cult

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GPT

This page of 'Connection' mixes slaughter imagery, sea prophecy off the Oregon coast, damage, bounty, quickness, and belonging into a threatening social vision.

The restored handwritten revisions sharpen the page's violence and instability. Connection here sounds less like comfort than a charged field where predation, appetite, drunkenness, and social belonging keep crossing into each other, ending with danger moving in step and the speaker's finger turned toward the cult.

Claude

'Connection' fuses hunting, killing, and predatory appetite into a single nervous system. Care for a chicken means taking its head 'take the head of summery / Until speech is decapitated and slaughter stands for joy'; there is 'no cowardice in the clown, / no shy fox in the hunt.' The center is 'Ottis Odysseus,' a 'Black cod captain' who wrote with a thumbnail that 'the fathoms are a wrappin'' and another snapper lunges 'when the bounty is a beauty exactly their own.' The lesson: 'cutting to THE quick to cook slow is a feast.' Violence as intimacy.