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By Jack Joseph Smith

Maybe he never did hear the legends of the dead singing yes After all there is a stance to make from underneath To leave the technologic and go to whip the rush Of course here we invite the lethal When Don walked into the furnal of my father's ashes When ever my father grew to it in his distance I knew that Don was the only one who from the past,was-there was The only representative of the South Walbash

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

This page revisits the dead-singing material and the pressure to leave technologic life, as if the poem is still deciding whether to flee or endure.

The recurrence suggests obsession rather than repetition for its own sake. The page feels caught between system fatigue and a desire for ritual release.

Claude

A tightened retake of the crematory scene from section VIII: 'Maybe he never did hear the legends of the dead singing yes,' the choice 'To leave the technologic and go to whip the rush,' and the moment 'When Don walked into the furnal of my father's ashes.' The visible self-correction - 'the only one who from the past,was-there / was / The only representative' - leaves the revision exposed on the page, and Don is named 'The only representative of the South Walbash,' the Wabash/Walbash slip kept intact.