Untitled ("It is so bad")
By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
The speaker describes a hollar, a grocery visit, remarks about getting skinny and fighting for a living. A dog needs no chain, and the Sun neither treats the addressee as special nor keeps ordinary hours.
The speaker puts complaints about other people's humor beside a refusal to expect special treatment. The dog and the Sun give the closing comparisons concrete subjects, though the phrase about hand cut chicken remains unexplained.
The poem begins 'It is so bad / That it is alot less than that', says 'It is hard to find snobs / in a hollar', mentions being asked 'about getting skinny' for 'the third thime', and ends 'It dosen't treat you special / It treats you like its own'.
Humor deflects hardship and outsiders' questions. The final lines make the sun, or hardship, indifferent rather than cruel.