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By Jack Joseph Smith

I Got To Get Up You have to listen, a bad dream Ya' got to think more than even three Like a good old cat in the corner I don't care if they hear me A window of ware; reflecting nothing, but it certainly sees what it wants As good now as the country hawk's and hogs the city street helps me COPIES

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

A bad dream demands feline attention, while a seeing window that reflects nothing keeps watching, and country hawks, city hogs, and COPIES mix into the page's survival logic.

The command to listen gives the bad dream practical weight, like advice for getting through a dangerous hour rather than an invitation to interpret symbols. The cat in the corner suggests watchfulness without panic, a domestic version of feral patience. That strange window sees without reflecting, so the world becomes something observed by surfaces as much as by people, and the final COPIES note leaves the page with a blunt archival echo.

Claude

Shorter third version, with the hogs helping the city street and the wilderness line left implicit; trails off with OCR fragments but keeps the refrain: 'I don't care if they hear me.'