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By Jack Joseph Smith

For Kirk From Jack I am sorry that you are weak Of course it is difficult And time consuming to be the sneek Precious with the kill Champion of the fake Let us see the absolutely not. The child grown having no matterr The revolutionary woman of no army The Mount Lebanon kids of Pennsylvania Who may see admeration as distrust or loss Is it give no chance toward growth When our evill has no ears Thus not tongues for us And give no deliverence We lie on our own Watch us falter Lously away from reality Like your saints Watched as flame We remain ugly With all new smarts The business of scinence America hip to literature See the ten commandments sim of gossip Put in the middle For it is there there that the house of man will fall

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GPT

Jack addresses Kirk in a poem about weakness, difficult conduct and becoming a champion of the fake. The speaker invokes a child, a revolutionary woman and Mount Lebanon children, then describes a collective failure involving saints, science, literature and gossip.

The speaker shifts from addressing you to a collective we that falters and remains ugly. The final line predicts the fall of the house of man. Unusual source spellings remain part of the transcript; the poem does not identify a particular argument between Jack and Kirk.

Claude

'For Kirk From Jack': 'I am sorry that you are weak', 'The child grown having no matterr', 'The Mount Lebanon kids of Pennsylvania', 'When our evill has no ears', 'See the ten commandments sim of gossip', ending 'For it is there there that the house of man will fall'.

A harsh address that turns from the friend's weakness to a collective failure; the typed spellings are kept.