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By Jack Joseph Smith

Jesus Is my life; Again my life Still and before sands are steep Evem though you haven't been to The desert Crissed acrossed the sand This star leaps without dought AS though We say hands on Take those nails out of your hands Take that spear out of your heat Stop thos men with their nails and hammer Kill those men with a spear, take them all now down so left is none, Lay them back against the hill, which we have many times accomplished, To let him, the guy,, be crusified again,, and again and again,, to kiss like a wish Is never the best place to be during death.

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GPT

The crucifixion is refused as a repeated spectacle, and devotion becomes an enraged wish to stop the cycle by force.

The page turns devotion into intervention: nails, spear, hands, desert, sand, hill, and repeated crucifixion are treated as a cycle the speaker wants to interrupt. The restored source spellings Evem and Crissed keep the page closer to its typed artifact, while unstable handwritten revisions intensify the refusal to let the scene repeat cleanly.

Claude

The crucifixion is rejected as spectacle — the speaker's rage is not at the crucifiers but at the repetition, the idea that this sacrifice must be performed again and again rather than stopped once.