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By Jack Joseph Smith
Humor AS
If I told you the truth,
would you let it die in telling
Unbleaveable if it was unbeleaf
Would I be running or saying
When it is just then
All looked around
And found,;
that it was there
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
The poem asks whether truth can survive being told and turns that question toward discovery.
The title's emphasis on humor complicates the page's questions about truth, running, saying, and belief. The odd spellings and clipped syntax make the poem feel unstable, as if certainty appears only after everyone has already looked around and found it.
Under the heading 'Humor AS,' the page wagers truth against survival - 'would you let it die in telling' - and answers with a sudden communal arrival: 'All looked around / And found,; // that it was there.' The coined 'Unbleaveable if it was unbeleaf' folds disbelief and falling leaves into one strained pun.