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By Jack Joseph Smith

ThE Behavior of Jett The entire time of time is lost Gaining turns and life can not find a clown Simple as a rose garden makes brokers wait Casted was your salt that slightly whispered Gently dreve down only pine and euealuptus And waiting crossed like chalk We were all strange when we met again Having nothing to go back to we were dead pan Up up to the steeple While dearly the crown spins round Where it is eyerybody's ring The hatred and exclusion, the need and the ner do well Of course the important parts left unsung Guilty and done like every head shake we have ever had Staid and strong we will not kill Knowledge has us letting things move before we eat And is their an unswerving awareness; questioning the talking ground, and let us have another em comma It seperates

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

A meditation on time, behavior, exclusion, knowledge, and separation, with the speaker moving from Jett's behavior into broader social and philosophical unease.

The restored scan-backed text makes the page less fragmentary than the OCR suggested, though the crossed-out middle still leaves a deliberate rupture. The poem moves from the lost `time of time` through garden, steeple, crown, and ring imagery into social injury: hatred, exclusion, guilt, restraint, and the question of awareness. The closing `em comma` and `It seperates` turn punctuation into a small figure for division itself.

Claude

Titled for a person ('ThE Behavior of Jett') but quickly abstracted into time, loss, and society: 'The entire time of time is lost', the crown that 'spins round' where it becomes 'eyerybody's ring', and a catalog of injury - 'The hatred and exclusion, the need and the ner do well'. It ends on grammar made into ethics, calling for 'another em comma' because 'It seperates'. A meditation that turns punctuation into the act of division itself. Source spellings 'eyerybody's', 'ner', 'seperates' kept; one crossed-out middle line was omitted as unstable, so the reading stays slightly provisional.