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By Jack Joseph Smith
Another Corner
I heard them at the table
I herd them at the cleaning up
I heard them when they
were not finished
I have heard about war
Going to sleep
I still want the stairway
for
some more
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
GPT
The speaker recalls hearing people at a table and while cleaning up, then mentions war, sleep and wanting a stairway for more.
The speaker connects domestic scenes with an unfinished desire. The closing revision remains unresolved, so the page does not yet support a confident account of what the stairway provides.
Claude
'Another Corner' repeats 'I heard them at the table' and 'I have heard about war', then 'I still want the stairway / for / some more'.
The poem gathers overheard talk into a quiet wish to keep going; one overwritten word in the last row is not read.