Untitled ("They were whispering that she,")

By Jack Joseph Smith

They were whispering that she, that would be me was not necessarily doing it, but definately looking around You carefully hunt a groundhog You check the low root outlets You know, where in the end you can snarl your way out of hell Then there is the two Like us The entrance and the exit The ones we both like the most In the midele of nowhere There can be a sandpaper On a groundhogs shore

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker reports people whispering about her looking around, gives groundhog-hunting instructions, and compares two people with an entrance and exit. Sandpaper on a groundhogs shore ends the page.

The speaker shifts from gossip to ways of finding an escape from hell. Entrance and exit supply a pair beside like us, while the final shore image leaves their connection unexplained.

Claude

The poem answers gossip, 'They were whispering that she, / that would be me', with instructions for hunting 'a groundhog' and its 'root outlets', 'The entrance / and the exit', ending 'In the midele of nowhere / There can be a sandpaper / On a groundhogs shore'.

The groundhog's burrow becomes a figure for knowing how to get in and out of trouble. 'definately', 'midele' and 'groundhogs' are kept as typed.