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By Jack Joseph Smith
Stories Passed On
Even as a surgeon at a thousand tables
Hell rasers formed
by their dedicated
twist to the opposite
In outrageous task
need not go beyond
the truth
In their lives
of hurt
and self annoited trouble
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AI Interpretation
GPT
The speaker compares an outrageous task with a surgeon at a thousand tables and says truth in lives of hurt and self-appointed trouble need not be exceeded.
The rough grammar leaves the link among surgery, hell raisers and stories open. The title does not verify a particular reported incident.
Claude
'Stories Passed On' compares 'a surgeon at a thousand tables' with 'Hell rasers formed / by their dedicated / twist to the opposite', and ends 'In their lives / of hurt / and self annoited trouble'.
The poem treats troublemaking as a kind of devotion; rasers and annoited are kept as typed.