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By Jack Joseph Smith

Time Won't Let Me Aregious and holy My turn never turned To your touch Love is the last thing you know It breaks you first And rises as you see yourself let go by I love nature But I walk away Any time I want Even if nature Is not ok Think with your gut It is Hemmingway good Young or old it makes moments long O from sorrow to yea both ANd wot It is better than you were ARE, ArE Now

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker describes love breaking and lifting one, claims freedom to leave nature, urges gut thought, and ties long moments to sorrow and a Hemmingway comparison.

The right-hand annotation revises or supplements the former were with are/now, but its exact attachment remains unsettled. The page does not prove a biographical attitude or literary judgment.

Claude

'Time Won't Let Me' opens 'Aregious and holy / My turn never turned / To your touch', says love 'breaks you first / And rises as you see yourself / let go by', claims the freedom to walk away from nature, and urges 'Think with your gut / It is Hemmingway good'.

The close, 'O from sorrow to yea / both ANd wot', holds sorrow and assent together, and the margin 'ARE, ArE Now' seems to revise 'It is better than you were' into the present tense, though that attachment is provisional.