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By Jack Joseph Smith

She went fallen in the ground When her love was never found She could not rise up from the drifting mud He seemed to be gone with the sorrow of a snake The universe that tells us How violent it is to be born The earth that tells me our why to die is A MisTAKE For us who fight it is Across A For thE rEst, it is NothiNg WAR, Yoo WON't stop it 300 million spANkEd dogs ON thE run

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

The typed opening describes a woman falling into the ground after love is not found, then calls birth violent. The handwritten continuation calls dying a mistake, mentions those who fight, and turns to war and millions of dogs on the run.

The handwritten continuation changes the subject from private sorrow to struggle and war. One crowded word is omitted and several letter forms remain uncertain; this reading does not use the old Moondown guess to supply a meaning.

Claude

Typed rows say 'She went fallen in the ground / When her love was never found', 'The universe that tells us / How violent it is to be born', with handwriting 'is A MisTAKE', 'For us who fight it', 'For thE rEst, / it is NothiNg', 'WAR, Yoo WON't stop it' and '300 million spANkEd dogs / ON thE run'.

A typed lament turns into a handwritten statement about war. One crowded handwritten word after 'is Across A' is omitted because its letters cannot be fixed.