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By Jack Joseph Smith

' TE No stopping his thoughts he has his right of passage Simple to fall in love and if getting a job dosen't make me a jerk I will be remembered as having at least one child He says keep your ears open laying off a soft circumstance Don't worry about the rain when it whips, Iwas always a star in another place Something is dismile when so alone, so ee DO ¢ ch Ean 45 wy binds, “4 fte4s As frie nd 3) A hot dog, anything that is even E/plcEp 7 epr Iss for them to The goasts say stay, while it is. silly. make question about those who went before me My resistance is serious, extreamly political ACATE EV Cc ONS 4teaxn the lock, no trick, watch me reffeange ait To, stare and practice nothingness th (+3 fiver learivy proh obec turz hi \ Evo we know having more than two hands is not real Tt is hard to tell people that everything amounting to glory has singe been one wierntetere, AL SE Lim G saew bh F Cn gat ew Fi and that is why Ged has nothing to do with sy woh 1 ni VE bbe a =

Original Scan

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AI Interpretation

GPT

This page moves through right of passage, jobs, children, and listening, as if adulthood were something granted only under compromised conditions.

The poem is wary of ordinary achievement. Work and memory are not offered as redemption, only as another test of whether one stays morally alert.

Claude

A densely annotated page of stoic aphorisms — right of passage, keep your ears open, resistance is 'extreamly political,' more than two hands isn't real — interleaved with handwritten marginalia the OCR has only partly captured.