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By Jack Joseph Smith

A Preface to Don Took Castro, and took My wife too, got them Cubans Boat and wouldn't let them go, Paid the price, first his boat, then his life, got to give him credit, + for that Standing on the diving Board - Throwing a pass, There is more work to do. War is not a child War is God if you happen to believe in that one. And all wanders Afterwards have not had Anything to do with death,

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The page begins as `A Preface to Don`, then widens from Castro, Cubans, boat, life, and work still left undone into a renewed statement that war is not a child.

The added lower text changes the page from a compact Don anecdote into a hinge between personal preface and the collection's war meditation. It keeps consequence close to friendship, faith, wandering, and death without resolving them.

Claude

'A Preface to Don' delivered in tight three-stanza strokes — hijacking Castro, paying with the boat and then the life, a figure on a diving board throwing a glass — positioning Don as a reckless preface to the longer work that follows.