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By Jack Joseph Smith
Getting old High
Someone take the boat off the water
Someone take the latter off the the ground
Someone take the bridge away
Someone take the mills
Now we sit through all of it
and it never leaves
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
GPT
The speaker asks for boat, latter, bridge and mills to be taken away but says the experience persists while they sit through it.
The ending separates removal of objects from what remains felt or remembered, without explaining the title's High.
Claude
'Getting old High' repeats a litany of removals: 'Someone take the boat off the water / Someone take the latter off the the ground / Someone take the bridge away / Someone take the mills'.
The close denies that subtraction works, 'Now we sit through all of it / and it never leaves', so the dismantled working landscape persists in memory; the title's High is left unexplained.