By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker challenges an addressee about bullying, a machine or gun and crossing a river, then contrasts the behavior with love, a circus and mixing things up.
The address includes hostile and racialized imagery without identifying the addressee or supplying a concrete event. Its judgments remain the speaker's claims.
'Shanked and Shallow' asks 'Is there a seperation punk / Do you bully in the field / With a machine or gun', says 'Scared as momkeys traped / you behave', and ends 'Your clicks are not good enough / to know what / Mixing it up means'.
A confrontational address to a bully, in the poem's own rough voice; seperation, momkeys and traped are kept as typed.