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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
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.
'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.