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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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AI Interpretation

GPT

Blind returns as a love poem of delay and invisibility, where dead stars, happenstance loss, shared dreams, touch, several heavens, and a handwritten I-WALKED OUT ONE SECOND beyond the stars keep two people mysteriously joined.

The stalled phone call gives the opening a small, ordinary frustration before the poem leaps outward into star death and renewal, now shadowed by the handwritten HAPINSTENCE / Lost note. Love is defined less as romance than as sharing a dream and a day-to-day thought, which makes union mental before it becomes physical. The lower handwritten coda extends the page past the typed ending into cosmic distance.

Claude

Revisits the 'Blind' poem of 220 with minor corrections; two stars dying to make another, love as sharing the same day-to-day thought, heavens that help 'people / who are two in the same.'