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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
The speaker contrasts insults and divided positions, warns of hurt with age, imagines listening to stars in an alley or outside a home, and closes by rejecting cheating.
The corrected You can restores an invitation to listen; the previous car reading was unsupported. No particular social incident is identified.
'Social' ranks insults, asking whether it is 'not better to be called / a rat's ass, or skin a cat / Then to be called two ends / against the middle', warns 'Watch your self young', and says 'The older you get the more / open doorknobs tear you apart'.
Against that wear it offers small consolations, 'You can listen to the stars / in an alley way / or stepping outside / a split level home', and the handwritten Just turns the last typed row into a blunt command: 'Just Leave cheating alone'.