Page 8
By Jack Joseph Smith
From the roaring
sounds of buffalo
Riffle to the
M-16 And South
Asia,
Balanced with the apples,
women hold up half the
sky. - Mao se Tung, last part
TAKE THE SHIT
OUT OF IT!
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
GPT
This page collides buffalo, rifles, the M-16, South Asia, and Mao into a blunt anti-rhetorical statement ending with `TAKE THE SHIT / OUT OF IT!`
It is one of the collection's clearest polemical pages. The poem wants to strip slogans and war language back to something bodily and furious.
Claude
A compressed American arc from the buffalo rifle to the M-16 to South Asia, closed by a Mao quotation and the blunt imperative 'TAKE THE SHIT OUT OF IT!' — the author dropping the lyric register for direct address.