Untitled ("My body is upstairs all the time")

By Jack Joseph Smith

My body is upstairs all the time I refuce to go gown on myself When I bend down to pick up an arcorn I saw forget it Sometimes I wish I had a wild sea in front of me But then I might leave Yeah, I am not a dreamer so maybe I would Now I know that they have nothing to worry about downtown But I told them I had another bank I led them around about a city or two I just said I heard these bigger banks like digging in to the smaller ones, I and then did a shoulder thing, and walked out

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GPT

The speaker describes keeping their body upstairs, considers leaving for a wild sea and recounts telling people about another bank. The speaker closes with a shoulder gesture and walking out.

The speaker shifts from bodily refusal to a reported conversation about banks. The handwritten I below digging has no clear cancellation or attachment, so it remains a separate fragment without turning the scene into a confirmed fraud.

Claude

The poem says 'My body is upstairs all the time', describes bending 'to pick up an arcorn', wishes for 'a wild sea', tells how 'I led them around about a city or two', and ends with a handwritten 'I' and 'and then did a shoulder thing, and walked out'.

A divided self and a small act of defiance toward bankers shape the poem. 'refuce', 'gown' and 'arcorn' are typed forms, and the handwritten 'I' is kept as a separate fragment.