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By Jack Joseph Smith

The grass we found just as birds together going to tips of trees Was away im a wagon stuffed like grain with bodies of fellows quite furrowed with rolling mostly with what concerms the universe We didn't attempt to figure it out Cause we had bigger stuff ta do listen, water was so precious, but Denny Phillips never asked for a drink And that graveyard many times fell final to the hit over the fence in softball But we were tougher than an agcom Down under the limestone denny Philips and me were involved with worlds af men subtracting nature in drills of confrontation Denny laughed, always lauged;; @% he seemed to know the exposior I took it serious and formed a gang Maybe it would become riggt not to be with ; Denny Phili-s in hiis death Maybe me weakness is a respect for sex But then one should refolutionary be ably to eross over though twenty years be blind behind them

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker remembers Denny Phillips through violence, laughter, and the uneasy persistence of male loyalty after death.

The page keeps shifting between games, fights, the graveyard, and long aftermath. Denny's laughter stands against the speaker's seriousness, which is why the final movement into memory feels unsettled rather than consoling. Even in damaged OCR form, the page clearly treats friendship as something that survives through confrontation, grief, and bodily history.

Claude

The Denny Phillips poem continues. Limestone, softball over the graveyard fence, drills of confrontation; Denny's laugh `seemed to know the exposior` while the speaker takes it seriously and `formed a gang`. The page turns the friendship into a theory of how boys divide under pressure.