Page 195

By Jack Joseph Smith

Don't say anything About I told you so I' never took a second to cross anyone with a life Not around the world Just across the gobe I never had spirs Red wings But just the oppisite is what T.S. Eliot says Each time I did something less I wish I would have done something else And to see before it comes true Has only one chance And that would be something That is against a law Excapt for her The voice is all you need to Know.

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker rejects swagger, regret, and the temptation to say I told you so, ending with the claim that her voice is all that is needed.

Boots, spurs, and Eliot all get folded into a self-portrait that keeps refusing the expected western posture. The poem is full of second thoughts, but it never settles into apology; instead it keeps testing what action might have mattered. The exception at the end turns the page personal, as if the only justified transgression would be for her.

Claude

I never took a second to cross anyone with a life. T.S. Eliot says the opposite, each time I did something less I wish I would have done something else. Her voice is all you need, know.