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By Jack Joseph Smith

Talking To Yourself I don't care who you are Cops have got to big for their own business I don't care who you are Power is the sound of an organ without guiting I don't care who you are I never saw an infant that was not the same I don't car who you are A mother will always tell you not to be turned on I don't care who you are If your dad tought you a trade you don't give it up I don't care who you are Thinking about yourself as a fighter makes you shit I don't care who you are However if one would say My poems are the greatest of all time Then we will care who you are

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker repeats indifference to who someone is while discussing police, power, infants, parents and fighting, then promises attention to a claim of writing the greatest poems.

The speaker makes identity irrelevant until someone claims supreme artistic value. The repeated address exposes that change in attitude without proving the writer makes the same boast outside the poem.

Claude

'Talking To Yourself' repeats 'I don't care who you are' (once typed 'I don't car who you are') between lines such as 'Cops have got to big for their own business', and ends 'However if one would say / My poems are the greatest of all time / Then we will care who you are'.

The refrain mocks indifference until the final boast reverses it; guiting, tought and the typed car are kept.