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By Jack Joseph Smith

Hobo With a Heart Nobody in this world is indEpENdENt "I didn't panhandle on the corner, into the office buildings where the money un-naturally is... is where I went" "Never belonged to anything red, cause the ladies prefered pink" "Grass in 1936 was a hell of a lot better than 1973 at age 65, But then the wind has stiffened And Mexico suffers more" "An american kid for freedom, a Mexican kid in the dirt" "Putting up the sweet and sour smell for keeps ain't like pick'in filberts!" Prosperty is survival, when your running it, Not smoking it's bottoms. delivEring its tops ANd Riding the trans? Like the whistle of a cop; all the time at the seat of your pants; it sings your britches off. But them again, the bENEAth thE rods Rockies are beautiful, even while your looking down AT thE cidErcoAL thE plANKed LAYErS ANd strENgth bEtwEEN Now I love steel* any man knows it's streight, but let it zip your heel, and then you can ex- plain to an academic about how being Greek ain't just quite worth what ya hear over whiskey at the leather chair Christmas gathering. "I've got land now and a wife with a P.H.D. Don't desire to explain how I received it, but I did have internal cancer; And know I got my blood, From the hibo I used to be.

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AI Interpretation

GPT

In Hobo With a Heart, quoted voices discuss survival, rail travel, steel, illness and life after wandering. A handwritten opening denies anyone's independence.

The speakers describe earning and traveling before an account of land, a spouse and the blood of a former hobo self. The rail annotations add rods, planked layers and strength between them; one handwritten term remains unsettled. These voices do not establish a single speaker's biography.


Claude

'Hobo With a Heart' records quoted sayings: 'I didn't panhandle on the corner,', 'Never belonged to anything red, / cause the ladies prefered pink', a riff on riding trains under the Rockies, and an ending in which the speaker has 'land now and a wife with a P.H.D.' and says 'I got my blood, / From the hibo I used to be.'

The voice is a former hobo's, proud and wry about the road life; it is a character's account, not checked biography.