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By Jack Joseph Smith

The Govener's Mother She, silver haired of a prim 80 some And from boudoir this morn Lacked thee occasion scorn And she, of aquired servants grace Called no maid come She'd had her loves at 21 Around the world she'd won Captains 9 With no need of Valentine Sniffs aristocratic nose of summation She knew with who Her age must dine Along the ridge of Oregon plains would woo But then good youth understands lifes time As would be for thine her people to tell Though man pioneer Bostonian had plans Never was she to be Mc Called La scave Believe she knew the song of the saved She'd seen Dan thirst on prarrie waves While fortune found her riled in Portland now She stepped out No lipstick, yet with rouge on cheekbones tilt from nature's chisel Humph! A splendid day for sunlit usage "And with no drizzle I'll pedestrian put my shinbone right sprout." We walked from the Court House steps Wounded Knee still not whipped And we were newspaper revolutionaries to gEt A food and clothing haul the F.B.I. cut to a short trip

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The poem follows an elderly woman's morning preparation and social assurance, then returns to the speaker's group after leaving the Court House. The revised ending calls Wounded Knee still not whipped and mentions a food and clothing haul cut short by the F.B.I.

The speaker contrasts the woman's status with the group's restricted political effort. The restored to gEt leaves an unfinished connection to the haul on the next row. The interpretation treats the closing account as the narrator's statement and keeps that syntactic uncertainty open.

Claude

A cleaner typed 'The Govener's Mother': the matriarch 'silver haired of a prim 80 some', 'Captains 9', 'She'd seen Dan thirst on prarrie waves', the quoted line 'And with no drizzle I'll pedestrian put my shinbone right sprout.', and the ending in which 'Wounded Knee still not whipped' and 'the F.B.I. cut to a short trip'.

This draft makes the protest ending sharper, with the handwritten revision insisting the struggle is not over. Dan is kept as typed here, distinct from Dam on page 45.