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By Jack Joseph Smith

Each Second The loss of fear is a child The quiet, the reach, the belief Is mild with vision and disregard See our terms where we began Living as leaves all the world over Where seaons connection, swivEL change iNto oNE thought See you in summer, is a winter for you; from one child to another Red sky at night, sailors delight Red sky in morning, sailors warning At All children know in visition Across the playground in primary, custody is not a call! rather a sin for each child knows the need to

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker describes childhood and connections among children, invokes two sailors' weather sayings and closes with custody and a child's need.

Handwritten changes interrupt the poem's account of seasonal connection. Damaged words leave the closing thought incomplete; the page does not establish a particular custody dispute or military event.

Claude

'Each Second' begins 'The loss of fear is a child', moves through 'Where seaons connection,' and the rhyme 'Red sky at night, sailors delight', then states 'All children know in visition' and 'custody is not a call! rather a sin', ending unfinished: 'for each child knows the need to'.

The poem sets children's shared knowledge against the language of custody and calling. Seaons keeps the cancelled r out without restoring an s, the handwritten swivEL and the detached At are provisional, the partly blotted word before sin and the damaged final word are omitted, and the page ends mid-sentence.