Untitled ("Most definately when you are a girl")

By Jack Joseph Smith

Most definately when you are a girl The sun and the moon won't watch for you Halll a chair around I am just sitting here It is living danger That is what it is And I don't feel him When I milk our only Holstean,you rotten bastards and when the Sun went down across the fence I was the eleventh of time I had lifted my eyes, counting, checking my two kids, back in the farm house shack I tried but the dog could not enter The walk to the breath of the lake, to suck it as a broken lilly, the

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker says the sun and moon will not watch for a girl, describes danger while sitting and milking a Holstean, and counts glances toward two children after sunset. The page ends with a dog, a lake and a broken lilly in an unfinished line.

The speaker brings domestic work and watchfulness into the same account. The closing the remains unfinished on the source page; it does not supply a missing action or establish the writer's household.


Claude

The poem begins 'Most definately when you are a girl / The sun and the moon won't watch for you', says 'I am just sitting here / It is living danger', and repeats material also found on handwritten page 015: 'When I milk our only / Holstean,you rotten / bastards', 'I had lifted my eyes, counting, / checking my two kids,', ending 'to suck it as a broken lilly, the'.

The poem reworks the milking and counting scene from page 015 in typed form, and its unfinished last word 'the' leaves the line open. The speaker's self-descriptions are the poem's, not biography.