Untitled ("When they shut of the utitles")

By Jack Joseph Smith

When they shut of the utitles You would be supprised what I can do with my grandparents voices Now my shoulders are as bare as twlight I will not be shattered along my fences He is a particular part of a broken Sun In the dead of night again I hum In case you wonder it ain't dixy, and it is not the Battle of the Republic

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker describes using grandparents' voices when utilities are shut off, bares their shoulders and refuses to be shattered. At night the speaker hums something they say is neither dixy nor the Battle of the Republic.

The speaker recalls a man as part of a broken Sun and invokes family voices in the dark. The page does not identify the tune, the speaker's gender or a particular loss of utilities.

Claude

The poem says 'When they shut of the utitles / You would be supprised what I / can do with my grandparents / voices', 'Now my shoulders / are as bare as twlight', and ends 'it ain't dixy, and it is not / the Battle of the Republic'.

Inherited voices fill the dark, and the ending refuses two familiar songs without naming the tune that is hummed. 'utitles', 'supprised', 'twlight' and 'dixy' are typed forms.