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By Jack Joseph Smith
Waiting
The good greatness
And the clean pleasure
without purpose
of man
Is only wandering
in the clouds
In the air is very fine
in all ways
Yet with feet on the ground
Many times thought
makes it better
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
GPT
The speaker describes greatness and pleasure without purpose as wandering in clouds, then places thought beside feet on the ground.
The poem connects airy wandering with a grounded act of thinking. It supplies no named person or event.
Claude
'Waiting' says 'the clean pleasure / without purpose / of man / Is only wandering / in the clouds', and ends 'Yet with feet on the ground / Many times thought / makes it better'.
A balance between drifting thought and grounded reflection; the in and on readings rest on same-page comparison of this machine's worn n with its true m.