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By Jack Joseph Smith

He said he was My friend, must spinn it to cleanth Drunk in wind Slight, therefore of wit The love of Nenis Nin we knew, after time, Did we ever take apart our troubles Silence has not to do with silver When we lose Life spinning the long parts of the bridge To kill is good as gold Watch the ring watch a worse story told Clean is not necesxarly good unhinged wild without chime Great Song without song Music without ear never dearly done, while gouge

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AI Interpretation

GPT

This page is a damaged but resonant lyric about friendship, drunkenness, wit, Nenis Nin, bridges, silver, gold, and songs that exist without sound.

The page survives through its oppositions: silver and gold, clean and wild, song and silence. The scan-clear corrections sharpen the named and bodily details, but the handwritten layer still resists final reading.


Claude

A 'Nenis Win' elegy built on aphorism-sized stanzas about silence, silver, and killing 'good as gold,' closing on the unfinished phrase 'while gouge' — the page refuses its own clean ending.