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By Jack Joseph Smith

Every second sure as shit Shouts across the sky A second shouts Yes am I Let little be the leaf that floated across the river It is alright A place that you can't go Sure it is best To stay on top of the mountain And let things spin around

Original Scan

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker gives each second a shout across the sky, follows a leaf across a river and favors staying on the mountain while things spin around.

Small drifting movement and a high stationary vantage share the page. The fragment leaves the inaccessible place unidentified.


Claude

Rows from 'Every second sure as shit / Shouts across the sky' and 'Let little be the leaf' to 'To stay on top of the mountain / And let things spin around'.

A blunt, buoyant poem about holding a high place while time moves past.