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By Jack Joseph Smith

es —— | 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 mew that Don was the only one who from the past,wes-there was The enty representive of the South Walbash / —

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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 condensed retake of page 20's Don-at-the-furnal scene, here calling Don 'the enty representive of the South Walbash' — the author's Wabash/Walbash slip kept in place.