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By Jack Joseph Smith

Accumulation don't come by here The hands off care of the wicked Without care, about what the deed is stuck to The star struck, a shine with the shank Or fair lady, to sink shattered down from the skyline The penny on the street corner, is still a coin, and it's sense is swone as artery, to the soul caught in dream continuing, the laso, thee noose, of unreconsible resource Needlessness at mightfall Never praying, again on a red line of rendition As if being lost were a place in any city No it is not a cause that quits It is not the chawk that squeeks Abhororent is a silencior Where death lives to concur

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AI Interpretation

GPT

This page is the clearest statement of the Accumulation sequence, where urban detail, dream logic, and moral exhaustion all feed into one closing image of death.

The poem has a real architecture here. Coins, arteries, nooses, and chalk all become parts of a single system of pressure that ends in silence and concurrence.


Claude

The clearest 'Accumulation,' headed by the handwritten warning 'don't come by / here' (split off from the title per scan review). The argument is fully built here: 'The hands off care of the wicked / Without care, / about what the deed is stuck to,' the falling 'star struck, a shine with the shank' and 'Or fair lady, / to sink shattered down from the skyline.' The system of pressure crystallizes -- 'The penny on the street corner, / is still a coin, / and it's sense is swone as artery, / to the soul caught in dream continuing, / the laso, thee noose, of unreconsible resource' -- coins, arteries, and nooses feeding one mechanism. The moral fatigue holds: 'Needlessness at mightfall / Never praying, again on a red line of rendition / As if being lost were a place in any city,' closing on 'Abhororent is a silencior / Where death lives to concur.' Source spellings 'swone,' 'laso,' 'thee,' 'unreconsible,' 'mightfall,' 'chawk,' 'Abhororent,' and 'silencior' are kept as written.