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By Jack Joseph Smith

The Girls Work and war and wining For it never finely fought Strapped and singled outt Further than dust as time The desert and thr knife Is none the less more friendly than an airplane Witch operated by cowards Would never land in Navada to fight the revolution AgAiNst thE girls with grEEN EYES

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker compares desert and knife with an airplane operated by cowards, tying a revolution to girls with green eyes.

The political and military language belongs to the poem's claim; it does not verify a historical revolution or flight.

Claude

'The Girls' piles up 'Work and war and wining', judges that 'The desert and thr knife / Is none the less / more friendly / than an airplane / Witch operated by cowards / Would never land in Navada', and ends 'to fight the revolution / AgAiNst thE girls / with grEEN EYES'.

The handwritten close swerves from war rhetoric into private fixation; the political language is the poem's, not a record of a real revolution or flight. The overwritten heading and handwritten casing remain provisional.