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By Jack Joseph Smith

The Love Call Cross as close as you can to danger Be as many times you have know you were dead If you have once rise up and sing love If you have not you are unworthy of my words If you are a man in a childs mind, or a lady finding that If protected and unsure Then youth take no part in me I speak with no differance in the fire Old and young the same flame and flicker I care not for aldults who lie about the young and I care less about the young who copy the same You think things have changed, then die and come back Listen to the madmen, this time in the music, someday a women, or a man my dears, will get you over it

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker demands experience of danger and love from young and old alike.

The speaker extends the charge from a man in a child's mind to a lady finding that, then rejects caution and age as proof of understanding. The unmarked that and rewritten ending of over keep part of the intended reading open. The final encounter with a woman or man offers release without explaining its terms.

Claude

'The Love Call' tells the reader to 'Cross as close as you can to danger' and says 'If you have once rise up and sing love / If you have not you are unworthy of my words'. It turns away 'a man in a childs mind, or a lady finding / that' the reader is 'protected and unsure', speaks of 'no differance in the fire' between old and young, and ends 'someday a women, or a man my dears, / will get you over it'.

The poem is a challenge addressed to the reader, setting risk and love against caution. It refuses to excuse either adults or the young, and the handwritten addition extends the charge to a woman as well as a man, though its syntax with the typed line is loose. The tone is stern at first and gentler at the close.