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By Jack Joseph Smith

He said he was, My friend, must spinn it to death, Drunk in wind Slight, therefore of wit The love of Aenis Nin we knew, after time, Did we ever take apart our troubbles Silence has not to do with the passing of, silver When we lose life gaining the long parts of the knife To kill is good as gold Watch the ring watch a a worse story told Clean is not necesxarly good wild without chime Great song without Music withou ear Never dearly dowe, while gowe

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker links friendship and death with wit, troubles and music, questioning what cleanliness and killing have to do with value.

The speaker recalls the love of Aenis Nin and describes losing life while gaining the long parts of a knife. Killing is called as good as gold beside a worse story and a claim that cleanliness is not necessarily good. Cancellations leave Great song without unfinished, followed by Music withou ear. The provisional closing words remain unexplained.

Claude

A page of short typed lines with handwritten additions, opening 'He said he was, / My friend, must spinn it to death,' and remembering 'The love of Aenis Nin we knew, after time.' It sets aphorisms such as 'To kill is good as gold' and 'Clean is not necesxarly good' against images of loss, including 'When we lose life gaining the long parts of the / knife.'

The page works by compressed, riddling statements that pair value words (gold, silver, good) with violence and loss. Music without its means, as in 'Music withou ear,' extends a sense of things severed from what makes them whole. The handwritten close 'Never dearly dowe, / while gowe' leaves the page open and unresolved rather than concluding.