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By Jack Joseph Smith
(IF I WERE
A HUNTER)
I AM, AND I DiDN't;
DAft to BE LEft
With My OWN SKIN
LiKE A BLADE iN thE
wiNd
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
GPT
The speaker names being a hunter, then describes being left with his own skin like a blade in the wind.
The speaker joins hunting with exposed skin and a cutting image. The corrected DAft wording interrupts a smooth statement of daring, so the reading should not depend on the old word Dare.
Claude
Under '(IF I WERE / A HUNTER)': 'I AM, AND I DiDN't; / DAft to BE LEft / With My OWN SKIN / LiKE A BLADE iN thE / wiNd'.
A compressed statement of being a hunter who did not kill, left exposed in one's own skin.