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By Jack Joseph Smith

New Trouble You hurt How about The old wound in Jesus And let's make it worse Serious hurt Off a first name basis On the way to the way of Christ Hurt on purpose, work and war and disorderily condect Still as the Sun, all about the body of Christ However, sickness on its own We all watch from the bridge of our noise, new trouble, not necessarly him

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker moves from the old wound in Jesus toward purposeful hurt, work, war, misconduct, and sickness on its own, viewed from a bridge of noise.

The ending not necessarly him makes the new trouble less securely attributable to Christ. The poem's wound and sickness imagery should not be turned into medical or theological fact.

Claude

'New Trouble' reopens 'The old wound in Jesus / And let's make it worse', escalates to 'Serious hurt / Off a first name basis', and lists 'Hurt on purpose, / work and war and disorderily condect' beside 'all about the body of Christ'.

The ending watches 'from the bridge / of our noise, new trouble, / not necessarly him', separating human disorder from the figure of Christ; the source spellings condect and necessarly are kept, and the final him remains a provisional type reading.