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By Jack Joseph Smith

No stopping his thoughts he has his right of passage Simple to fall in love and if getting a job doesn'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, I was always a star in another place Something is dismile when so alone, so clear SO CLEAN AS MY birds, MY joys as friends A hot dog, anything that is even EXCEPT CITIES 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 CONSACRATE the lock, no trick, watch me rearrange it To stare and practice nothingness while in its finest waiting and after turns we know having more than two hands is not real It is hard to tell people that everything amounting to glory has alwys been one FALSE LIVING and that is why CREATION has nothing to do with it, what I'VE done

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The page works through right of passage, jobs, children, rain, isolation, ghosts, political resistance, nothingness, impossible hands, glory as false living, and CREATION's distance from what the speaker has done.

The cleaned typed layer makes the page read as a sequence of aphoristic tests. Its handwritten edits push against the typed certainty, especially where the lock line becomes CONSACRATE, the impossible hands line is folded into waiting and aftermath, and the closing turns from a struck-out God and big mistake toward CREATION, FALSE LIVING, and the speaker's own act.

Claude

A dense page of self-justifying maxims: 'he has his right of passage,' 'Simple to fall in love,' a hope to 'be remembered as having at least one child,' and the advice 'keep your ears open laying off a soft circumstance.' The all-caps outbursts - 'SO CLEAN AS MY birds,' 'EXCEPT CITIES,' 'CONSACRATE the lock, no trick, watch me rearrange it' - drive toward a bleak conclusion that 'everything amounting / to glory has alwys been one FALSE LIVING / and that is why CREATION has nothing to do with it, what I'VE done.' This reading remains provisional because the page is flagged needs-followup with partly captured handwritten marginalia.