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By Jack Joseph Smith

I would HAVE BEEN A hippy And GoNE To OREGoN To join EARth RisiNg. thAt's if I WERE SixtEEn thErE BEforE somE drAggEd ME down, And thE wENt off To ViEthNAM

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker imagines being a hippy, going to Oregon and joining Earth Rising at sixteen, before being dragged down and mentioning someone going to ViEthNAM.

The speaker describes an unrealized possibility. The page does not identify Earth Rising or settle who went away. Several handwritten case choices and the short punctuation mark rendered as a period after RisiNg remain provisional.

Claude

Handwriting says 'I would HAVE BEEN / A hippy And GoNE To / OREGoN To join EARth / RisiNg. thAt's if I / WERE SixtEEn thErE', and ends 'And thE wENt / off To ViEthNAM'.

The poem imagines another path and closes on others leaving for war. It does not say who went, and 'thE' is kept without supplying a missing word.