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By Jack Joseph Smith

The Watch It can be no less of an evil when you go after it You got to know, that there is a beginning Each step needs to be stopped You think it dosen't guit? Split your head in half With the growth of evil Make a California sighn t I will not help, no matter how good the intentiom Power will leave,, especially WHEN YOUR PURPOSE WAS to have gathered it Unless moment to moment, EVEN to EVEN you watch it

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GPT

"The Watch" argues that evil must be checked at each step because good intentions collapse the moment attention relaxes.

The poem is practical rather than ceremonial, treating moral failure as something incremental and therefore stoppable. Its refusal to help, even under noble pretexts, suggests distrust of grand interventions once power starts feeding on them. What survives is vigilance itself, a discipline harsher than optimism.

Claude

The Watch: evil must be stopped each step. Split your head in half with the growth of evil, make a California sign. Unless moment to moment you watch it.