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By Jack Joseph Smith

Blind I am stoped, don't know how to make a call in less than ten minutes But two negatives make a positive when two stars die to make another one HAPINSTENCE Lost And ever if we can not see each other we know that love is being with another who has the same dream, and for that matter, just day to day thought Of course touch helps the blood in your heart And there are four or five heavens I know of that help people who are two in the same I-walked out one second beyond the STARS

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GPT

"Blind" argues that love is a shared dream between unseen companions, with dead stars, delayed calling, happenstance loss, touch, and a final walk beyond the stars all keeping two people in the same life.

The opening delay around making a call sets the poem in ordinary frustration before it suddenly leaps to dead stars making another star, now shadowed by the handwritten HAPINSTENCE / Lost note. That cosmic analogy is brought back down to daily life when love is defined as sharing the same dream and the same day-to-day thought. Touch matters because it returns the argument to blood and heartbeat, while the "four or five heavens" and the final walk beyond the stars keep the union larger than the body alone.

Claude

'Blind': stuck unable to make a call in ten minutes; two negatives make a positive 'when two stars die / to make another one.' Invisible love, day-to-day thought, and four or five heavens that help 'people who are two in the same.'