Untitled ("Now that he is gone to Hell")

By Jack Joseph Smith

Now that he is gone to Hell Sometimes I watch musrats One hole then out the other Then change it like arithematic a yard away And what a difference it makes when that is all your doing Seal one side do the other Figer out that you have been had O well, just do it again I got in the fifty five quarter ton yellow pick truck, still tight as a drum, and drove down, actually, to town When I stepped out I realized that a a part of the reatale had wooden walk

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GPT

After saying he is gone to Hell, the speaker watches musrats and holes, describes trying again after being had, and drives a yellow truck to town to notice a wooden walk.

The speaker moves from a statement of absence to repeated practical actions and noticing a surface in town. The page does not explain the absence or establish a particular death.

Claude

The poem says 'Now that he is gone to Hell / Sometimes I watch musrats', describes sealing their holes ('Seal one side / do the other'), and drives 'the fifty five quarter ton / yellow pick truck' to town, where 'part of the reatale had wooden walk'.

Muskrat trapping becomes a figure for repeated effort and being fooled ('Figer out that you have been had'). The 'he' gone to Hell is not identified.