By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
The speaker associates brushwork with being locked up, repeatedly insists on quitting to avoid going away for life, and says they are no longer available.
The confinement language is part of the poem and does not establish a legal event or sentence.
'Consquence' begins 'When I pick up a brush / and make a strok / I am locked up', repeats the warning to another and to the self, 'How many times / do I have to telll you / Howmany times to / tell myself', and states 'I have to quit / or I go away for life'.
The poem ties making art to compulsion and confinement, then ends in refusal: 'So no matter of the phone calls, / I am not here for you / any more'. The confinement language is the speaker's, not a record of a legal sentence.