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By Jack Joseph Smith

Young Man And The Sea They are not livid, they are buldging from the eyes They are ravid, Blood is coming out of what offered to the sea and sun is left of their skin Tingues suncken, bobbing away from their cracked conoes in my mind I'm drinking rum and smoking cocane, and I own the boat Muriel boat lift They came aboard I lost my boat I was the first time I went to heaven, told I'd get there, would be a better way of potting it, I suppose Maybe that is why any kind of didtruction dosen't bother me I mean once you have taken the chance, and just after the emotion received the blessing What is to make you Stop that danger from trying

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker recalls injured people at sea and losing a boat, then qualifies the account of going to heaven as being told of getting there.

After saying the first time I went to heaven, the speaker revises that account inline: told I'd get there would be a better way of potting it, I suppose. This qualification separates the promise from the claimed arrival. The closing question asks what could stop danger from trying after a chance has been taken and a blessing received.


Claude

This second 'Young Man And The Sea' retells the scene: bodies 'buldging from the eyes', 'Blood is coming out of what offered / to the sea and sun', 'Tingues suncken' by 'cracked conoes in my mind', the 'Muriel boat lift', and 'They came aboard / I lost my boat'. The speaker says 'I was / the first time I went to heaven' and adds by hand 'told I'd get there, would / be a better way / of potting it, / I suppose', then reflects that 'any kind of didtruction dosen't bother me' once 'you have taken the chance', ending 'What is to make you / Stop that danger from trying'.

Compared with the previous page the telling is flatter and more reflective, moving from the sea scene to the claim of having been to heaven. The handwritten self-correction scales that claim down to a promise, and the closing question makes indifference to destruction sound like both defiance and a warning.