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By Jack Joseph Smith
When
Humor, AS
If I told you the truth,
would you let it die in telling
Unbleaveable if it was unbeleaf
Would I be running or saying
When it is just then
All looked around
And found,
that it was there
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
GPT
The speaker asks whether telling the truth would let it die in the telling. Questions about belief and action precede people looking around and finding that something was there.
The speaker doubts what telling can preserve, then locates a discovery through shared looking. The handwritten Humor, AS beside the typed When introduces a possible comic frame, though the heading's order remains unsettled.
Claude
Under the typed 'When' and handwritten 'Humor, AS', the speaker asks 'If I told you the truth, / would you let it die in telling', then 'All looked around / And found, / that it was there'.
The poem weighs whether truth survives being spoken, and finds it was present all along. The order of the two heading words is not settled.