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By Jack Joseph Smith

Dear Knowledge ShE is to strEight for mE to BEnd hEr, The stomach for love, the underneath, swift as a good song, that lyric, that cord that goes into your heart, makes your brain remember, She would come to me in death, she is that tough, she is that good I am not her boyfriend, I am her blood I took a stroke aside the ocean itself and saw her in a grip of time, underneath was large, and even had that drift away thought I had had way in the middle of the Pacific before, a lot better than a precious stone, how strange that moment is Right at the moment, some people plan and turn their head, some people act, no matter what I can still see you twice,

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker calls a woman too straight to bend, recalls a Pacific moment and says he belongs to her as blood rather than as a boyfriend.

The speaker joins remembered water with bodily kinship and a woman who could come to him in death. The writer addresses knowledge in the title, but the page does not settle whether the woman and that address name the same subject.

Claude

'Dear Knowledge' opens with a handwritten line 'ShE is to strEight for mE to BEnd / hEr,' and describes a woman as a song 'that goes into your heart', saying 'I am not her boyfriend, I am her blood', and ends 'I can still see you twice,'.

The poem treats knowledge as a person who cannot be bent, and holds the speaker's devotion against time; blacked-out words at the end are omitted.