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By Jack Joseph Smith

Look Don't look; seeing is where it is at Even in old Mexico they spoke like that I was in one place,, and then in another,, then you just have to go No clue with the change Laughter has a looking back Wonder has the same place Joy, dream, and skipping I had nothing to say,, swam wise Then the automobile pulled out And by and by walking was not normal Pull it together and just look And I did the unusual And they were all gone

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker distinguishes looking from seeing, recalls movement between places and Mexico, then describes an automobile leaving and everyone being gone after an unusual act.

The speaker links laughter and wonder with looking back while trying to gather himself. The page withholds the unusual act and gives no basis for supplying an event or a destination.

Claude

'Look' begins 'Don't look; seeing is where it is at', recalls being 'in one place,, and then / in another,,', and ends 'Pull it together and just look / And I did the unusual / And they were all gone'.

The poem plays on looking and seeing, ending on a sudden absence; the doubled commas are kept.