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By Jack Joseph Smith
Young Work
Do the same thing over and over again
What do they know
Or do something different all the time
What do they know
About making everything you do
apply to you
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
GPT
The speaker contrasts repeating the same thing with doing something different all the time, asking what others know about making work apply to oneself.
Both choices lead to the same question. The poem leaves the kind of work and the judging others unnamed.
Claude
'Young Work': 'Do the same thing over and over again / What do they know / Or do something different all the time', ending 'About making everything you do / apply to you'.
The poem dismisses outside judgment of how one works.