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By Jack Joseph Smith
In the form
of Right &
Wrong
Some things
Just Don't
Get Done
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
GPT
The poem reduces moral categories to a hard limit: some things simply do not happen.
Its force comes from compression. 'Right & Wrong' names a familiar moral form, but the ending resists judgment in favor of blunt impossibility: some acts, decisions, or reconciliations just do not get done.