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By Jack Joseph Smith

Insight When it is barren is when we see the work we have done I didn't think anything of it until I came back to the tree I planted Or crossed a street to seee the sorrow I never saw Or to see the sky change And to know why men are different at six o clock in the morning To see a river the same from Western Pennsylvania to Western Oregon Insight lets you come and go Insight lets you change

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker revisits a planted tree, notices sorrow and morning differences in men, and sees a river as the same across western Pennsylvania and western Oregon.

The speaker calls insight a means of returning and changing. The river connects distant places through his perception, without claiming they contain the same physical river.

Claude

'Insight' says 'When it is barren is when / we see the work we have done', recalls 'the tree / I planted' and 'a river the same / from Western Pennsylvania / to Western Oregon', and ends 'Insight lets you change'.

A reflective poem about seeing one's life clearly; seee is kept as typed.