Communication?

By Jack Joseph Smith

SEE I SAW YOU? I saw a man as he lay dying He was anywhere in the war of wailing But who would rhetorically know Because that's the do in the way the saying goes Listen as modern saber just called blade Cuts through the personage of a throat Now watch close tinted eye shade Then throw away the quite of this note O, your not the one who found it I see you were no-where around it Go ahead completely I'm gone succinctly You can quite again away the note We're the ones who cut the throat

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker says they saw a man dying, challenges an absent addressee, and describes a blade cutting a throat. After urging the addressee to discard the note, the speaker closes with We're the ones who cut the throat.

The speaker moves from I saw to We're the ones, including themselves in the final accusation. The questions about communication and seeing concern the gap between an account of violence and presence at it.

Claude

Under the second heading 'SEE I SAW YOU?', seven couplets begin 'I saw a man as he lay dying' and end 'We're the ones who cut the throat'.

The rhyming couplets keep a taunting tone that turns communication into complicity. The poem names no specific event.