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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
The speaker opens with violent commands, describes being lost and remembers a woman whose vision was right for them and who laughed at their disaster. The close asks whether loss stops.
The later address moves toward walking away and never going back. The commands belong to the poem's rhetoric and do not establish a plan or event; revised spelling is retained without normalization.
'No Matter What Now' opens 'Kill the mother fuckers / String them up', turns to 'Her vision was always right for me / My DEsEAstEr made her laugh', and ends 'I mean is it not true / That loss dosen't stop'.
The violent opening is the speaker's rhetoric and gives way to loss and self-mockery; the handwritten DEsEAstEr and hArt replacements keep provisional mixed case.